I would authorize the re-entry of evacuees in these town. The estimates provided by Yajima et al. (2015) show that internal exposure to the residents was significant because all foodstuffs in the market and quantitatively monitored for radiation contamination. The external doses for the outdoor critical groups in the present study exceeded that of the indoor participants. The highest estimate was reported in Iitate, as 17 mSvy-1. This value lies within the acceptable limit of 1 mSvy-1 – 20 mSvy-1 as recommended by the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP 2007).…
This nuclear disaster was a series of equipment failures – nuclear meltdowns – releases of radioactive materials at the ‘Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant’.…
The first disparity between the Chernobyl and Fukushima accident is the causes. The Chernobyl accident was caused by human error in conducting the plant outside its technical specifications and failure to notify the proper authorities following the accident. Chernobyl’s power plant also had a faulty nuclear reactor design which exclude a containment structure typically found in most nuclear power plant. The two contributing factors usher the nuclear reactor to explode and failure to contain discharge of radioactive materials into the atmosphere. In contrast, the Fukushima accident precipitate due to natural disaster consist of earthquake and tsunami causing a malfunction of the plant’s cooling system. Unlike Chernobyl, Fukushima’s nuclear plant…
Beachapedia is a credible source because it has obtain decades of experience and knowledge gained from the Surfrider Foundation activists, scientists and staff through hundreds of environmental and educational campaigns. Radiation is in every person’s daily life and is not harmful, but when uranium is being used for either power or destruction, then the radiation from them can cause death. I will use the article to briefly explain what radiation is, the different types of radiation, and how it has affected millions of people from the bombing of Hiroshima to Chernobyl to the present.…
After the reactor shut down, one of the valves stayed open, the hot water streamed out of the valve and the reactor overheated. Another mishap is very hard to detect before it happens, and it is difficult to evacuate and fix the situation. An enormous byproduct of nuclear power is nuclear waste, and is very dangerous to anything that touches it. Imagine a truckful of waste crashing and spilling, it would be a disaster for everyone in the area. Everyone would have to evacuate, and if the nuclear waste would happen to runoff into the river, contaminated water would be present for a very long time, and we might not ever clean it up.…
Introduction: The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster was the largest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. It measured 7 on the Nuclear Event Scale, which is the highest rating. The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster was initiated by a magnitude 9 earthquake. This earthquake caused a tsunami with waves reaching up to 133 feet to crash on the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. This caused major damage to the nuclear plant. Workers were needed to keep this already terrible incident from escalading. The Fukushima Daiichi cleanup workers are incredibly brave. Today, I would like to tell you about the bravery of the Fukushima 50, the Skilled Veterans Corps, and the Fukushima Firefighters.…
On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake the strongest ever recorded struck the East coast of northern Japan. It Japan triggered a massive tsunami along the Pacific Coast of northeastern Japan. As a result over 20000 people were killed and the Fukushima Daichi nuclear reactor has been severely damaged so Low-levels of radiation have been emitted.…
Near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in March of 1979, a reactor malfunction resulted in the release of radioactive material into the atmosphere. The automatic release valve malfunctioned, which prevented water from entering the system and cooling the reactor core. This incident is considered the worst disaster in U.S. nuclear history (Gale). However, from this incident we learned more about how reactors work, the environmental impact, and the health consequences of radiation exposure.…
After the Fukushima nuclear reactor disaster, radioactivity and radioactive contamination have become a topic of our conversation. In the initial stage, people were terrified by it and spread bad gossip about it although they did not know what it is exactly.…
LOS ANGELES - California is closely watching the crisis at a Japanese nuclear plant, but officials downplayed the threat that a radioactive cloud blown across the Pacific could pose for the US West Coast. While radioactivity could reach the United States from the quake-hit Fukushima plant, the levels would not be high enough to cause major health problems, said the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).…
“The earthquake, tsunami and the nuclear incident have been the biggest crisis Japan has encountered in the 65 years since the end of World War II. We 're under scrutiny on whether we, the Japanese people, can overcome this crisis." -- Prime Minister Naoto Kan. On Friday March 11, a massive 8.9 magnitude quake struck near Japan 's east coast and was followed by a overwhelming tsunami, which wiped out swathes of the country 's coastline. The deadly tidal wave also knocked out several reactors at the Fukushima nuclear power station, giving the world its biggest nuclear crisis since Chernobyl in 1986. This went from devastating earthquake to major nuclear crisis.…
There are some steps that are being taken to make sure that the reactors cause no more further damage than they have already done. They are injecting nitrogen into the reactor cores in hopes of reducing the radioactive activity. With all of the chemicals, there is fear that the chemicals will contaminate the rest of the world’s ocean water supply. Japan was able to stop the radioactive water from flowing into the Pacific…
In March 2011, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake hit the pacific coast of Japan, generating up to 133ft tall tsunami waves, which obliterated everything up to 6 mi. inland. According to the NPA (National Police Agency) of Japan, 24, 656 people were affected by this catastrophe, which include the deceased, injured, and missing. The tsunami also affected three of the six nuclear reactors of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant causing leakage of radioactive material. Many workers and even civilians worked hard to contain the harmful material for it to stop contamination in other areas, but it already spread. A The Associated Press news writer states, “The massive amount of radioactive water is among the most pressing…
The triple disaster: earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear accident. The earthquake and tsunami caused extensive and severe structural damage in north-eastern Japan, including heavy damage to roads and railways as well as fires in many areas, and a dam collapse. Naoto Kan said, "In the 65 years after the end of World War II, this is the toughest and the most difficult crisis for Japan." Around 4.4 million households in northeastern Japan were left without electricity and 1.5 million without water. The tsunami caused nuclear accidents, primarily the level 7 meltdowns at three reactors in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant complex, and the associated evacuation zones affecting hundreds of thousands of residents.…
An earthquake of a magnitude of 9.0 that occurred in Japan at 2:46 pm on Friday March 11, 2011 did a significant amount of damage in the region, as the following tsunami did even much more damage, flooding about 560 square kilometers resulting in a human death toll of about 19,000 and the destruction of coastal ports, towns and buildings (Fukushima Accident, 2016). Eleven reactors at four different nuclear power plants in the region were operating at the time and were all shut down when the earthquake struck, but one of the plants, the Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant showed signs of a problem on day five (Fukushima Accident, 2016). The reactors proved to overcome adverse conditions caused by the earthquake, but vulnerable to the tsunami. Unfortunately, three Tepco employees were killed directly by the earthquake and the tsunami (Fukushima Accident, 2016).…