Natural disasters

operating nuclear power plants, there have only been three major accidents. These were Fukushima, Chernobyl and Three Mile Island. Only the Chernobyl accident in 1986 had fatalities. In fact it had the only fatalities caused by a commercial nuclear disaster. The reactors used at Chernobyl were the very flawed and poorly designed Soviet reactor which were designed at the birth of the nuclear age. They were unable to cool themselves in an emergency shutdown or stop of the

plant starts affecting the environment when its being constructed but this is a frequent problem for any major business. When building the infrastructure, it requires a large amount of land. This means clearing out forests which can disturbs the natural habitat and wild life of those species in that area. Plants who uses large body of water, such as artificial lake, lake or river to reject heat will affects the quality of water and aquatic life in river and sea levels. The polluted water is cause

southeast is ideal for a nuclear plant because the infrastructure is there for the transmission lines to the most populated cities, earthquakes and tsunamis do not pose a threat due to the large distance from tectonic plates and oceans, and natural weather disasters like tornadoes are very uncommon. In addition, if a nuclear meltdown occurred, the plant would be far enough from the occupied towns to provide a safe exclusion zone distance of over a 100 km radius. Naturally, this would be provide extra

It’s quite easy to say that we do not live in a perfect world. Several people wish that they had the tools to fix the world. But it not an easy task, because the tools that are needed are not already assessable. However, in the movie The Yes Men: Fix the World Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno think that they have found the tool to fix the world: impersonation. Andy and Mike impersonate corporations that they believe to be “big-time criminals in order to publicly humiliate them, and otherwise giving

” (Behr, 2009). According to that same article, no new reactors were made for many years afterward, and in 2009 the industry was still trying to get back on its feet. An example of how the anti-nuclear attitude seeped into popular culture is the disaster movie The China Syndrome (1979). This movie outlines a cover-up regarding the safety conditions within nuclear reactors and the possibility that a molten uranium core would erode its way through the Earth. Such a scenario is impossible, as the uranium

790). Since that day, nuclear power has been trying to throw off the shadow of its dark beginnings. However, there are numerous people to this day that remain wary of this particular power source. Often safety is called into question, citing major disasters as reasons to forgo its use. Efficiency and cost are also brought up, questioning whether nuclear power is a better alternative financially. Many people fail to realize there is more to nuclear energy than the what bedtime horror stories reveal.

On March 11, 2011 natural destruction raged the small island nation of Japan. With a massive earthquake and tsunami caused equipment damage that eventually lead to destruction of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. During the earthquake and tsunami three nuclear reactors were destroyed. The 9.0 magnitude earthquake caused damage all over the island and still 2 years later Japan is struggling to get back on its feet. People were forced to leave their homes and possessions behind as the Japanese

of chemistry, biology and physics. Vision Maximize long term value per share by being the most valuable and respected science company in the world. Value • Integrity’ • Respect for people • Protecting the planet Bhopal Gas Tragedy The Bhopal Disaster was one of the world’s worst Industrial catastrophes. It occurred on the night of December 2-3, 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited pesticide plant in Bhopal, India. A leak methyl isocyanate gas and other chemicals from the plant resulted in

The Chernobyl Disaster was not meant to happen at all, what was supposed to happen was an experiment to see if the reactor’s own electrical needs could be supplied by a freewheeling turbine in the event of a power outage, but the experiment did not go as it was planned. This experiment gone wrong caused so much radiation sickness to the people, which lead to death by sickness, or death by cancer. The people who lived ended up having children with many mutations and disabilities. The Soviet Union

solution for constantly growing energy needs. No doubt, the disastrous psychological and economical effects of the three accidents – the Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima are major factors. Another one is the lasting threat to the planet’s natural environment. Moreover, thousands were affected by and still physically and mentally suffer from exposure radiation; the cost of vast evacuation and consecutive placement of hundreds of thousands uprooted people and live stock involved millions of