equipment failures‚ nuclear meltdowns and releases of radioactive materials. According to the International Business Times (Australia) "Fukushima is not the worst nuclear accident ever but it is the most complicated and the most dramatic disaster.” (IBT‚ 01) On April 2011 The Nuclear Institute rated the disaster a Level 7 “Major Accident” on the International Nuclear Event Scale. The International Nuclear Event Scale How the reactors were damaged An earthquake of magnitude 9.0 on a Richter Scale
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1. Nuclear Accidents : If a meltdown‚ an accident where severe overheating of the nuclear reactor results in the melting of the reactor’s core‚ happens‚ a nuclear power plant could release radiation into the environment‚ which causes Some of the symptoms include nausea‚ vomiting‚ diarrhea and fatigue. People who work at nuclear power plants and live near those areas are at high risk of facing nuclear radiations. ( The Chernobyl nuclear accident is‚ by far‚ the worst nuclear accident in the history
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Fukushima fault. RT News [online] 2012. Available from: http://rt.com/news/fukushima-nuclear-disaster-report-459/ Accessed 2012 October 2. [4] Diet ’s Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission. France 24 [online] 2012. Available from: http://www.france24.com/en/20120705-fukushima-meltdown-man-made-nuclear-accident-tokyo-japan-tsunami-earthquake Accessed 2012 October 2 [5] Macdonald A. Nuclear Power Global Status. IAEA [online] 2006 Available from: http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Magazines/Bulletin/Bull492/49204734548
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Japan earthquake and tsunami - 2011 Japan is an island nation located in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean‚ it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan‚ China‚ North Korea‚ South Korea and Russia. Japan is an archipelago of 6‚852 islands. The four largest islands are Honshu‚ Hokkaido‚ Kyushu and Shikoku‚ together comprising about ninety-seven percent of Japan’s land area. Japan is a major economic power and has the 3rd largest nominal GDP Its GDP per capita is $34‚739 or the 25th highest in the
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from nuclear sources is revolutionizing how we power our homes‚ but is it good for the environment? Pondering countless people’s minds is whether it should stay open‚ since Three Mile Island (TMI) is shutting down in 2019. TMI should say goodbye because of 3 main reasons. Three Mile Island is too much work‚ it can cause accidents‚ and it is not helping the earth. Plant owners spend numerous amounts of money to produce nuclear energy to power houses. Mining the uranium to build and run the plant costs
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Pick three locations‚ events or individuals in your location (county‚ city or state) and complete a 6 - 8 page assessment of their vulnerabilities and threats‚ putting their security in order of priority‚ explaining and defending your choices. Terrorism vulnerability assessments were created to criticize any “Achilles’ heel” in a security system that can be exploited by anyone willing to do harm to the location‚ an individual‚ or coordinated event. It assesses the weaknesses of facilities
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Actually this is the main adverse effect on human after an accident of nuclear power. The last point of the dark side is that when the power station meets an accident‚ such like what happened in 2011 in Japan‚ the Fukushima Nuclear Accident‚ is much more devastating than those in conventional energy plants. Despite being a much rarer occurrence‚ individual nuclear disasters are much more deadly than‚ say‚ fossil fuel disasters. The accident may destroy all the living things and buildings around and
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information about it. I heard the words “The correct decision is made by the correct information and the correct analysis.” I agree with it‚ so I think we have to collect the correct information. The accident at nuclear power plant Do you know the INES? It is a level that evaluates danger of an accident and a trouble in a nuclear power plant. Fukushima 1st power plant became one of the station
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The nuclear accident that happened in Fukushima in 2011 is the worst miserable thing that happened in the past‚ and this disaster have leaked significant amounts of radiation that have affected ecosystems in the region. On March 21‚ 2011‚ TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company) investigated the seawater near the southern discharge port of the Fukushima Daiichi NPS‚ revealed that radioactive substances significantly exceeding safety standard values were detected. According to National Geographic‚ Joseph
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For my first closed-ended question‚ I asked‚ “Do you support the building of nuclear plants?” I got a varied responses from the audience‚ eight‚ of the 16 in the class‚ supported the building of nuclear plants. The other half of the class said that they either didn’t have enough information or did not support the building. This leads me to believe that the class has mixed feeling on this topic and need more information over nuclear plants to make a decision. The next closed-ended question was‚ “Do
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