crisis, in which the Philippines was greatly affected. The Bataan Nuclear Power Plant was built in the early 1980s but never went into operation because of the strong opposition from Bataan residents and Philippine citizens. The Fukushima nuclear disaster gave pause to efforts to revive the plant (Ruwitch, 2012). Despite the dangers of the operation of nuclear power plants might bring, I still firmly believe that nuclear power plants should be used in the Philippines. Nuclear reactors are essentially
the most energy-dense resource compared to all of the other natural resources. Nuclear energy is not just utilized to supplied electricity; it is used in wide area such as medicine, heating and space travel. It has one of the little environment impacts on land and natural resources compared to any other electricity sources. According to Dr. Charles Ferguson, more than forty countries use nuclear
The increase in household and commercial energy users, drives the quest for an efficient power source. Nuclear power plants have been discovered to be a viable energy source that might supply energy for the long run. Nuclear power is said to be cheap, safe, and environmental-friendly. These ideas release attractive forces that pull the people to the idea of converting the Philippines to a nuclear country. But people were led astray to these ideas without knowing what is the real deal behind this
into the air. There were over 27,000 fatalities due to the earthquake and tsunami but none of them directly related to the nuclear disaster [2]. More than 160,000 evacuees were forced to leave their homelands to avoid radiation exposure [3]. The purpose of this report is to investigate: the technical issues behind the disaster the ethical issue related to the disaster The report also refers to the Model
soon as the sun came out in the morning I got out of bed and of my room and sneaked to see what happened with my parents last night. When I entered the room there was no one inside, but the tv was on. I sat down in the floor and watched the tv. “Chernobyl Incident” was all around the television and to be honest I was truly confused. It was were my father worked, but this time it wasn’t in the tv because of a price, it was up in the news because something bad happened. After some minutes of watching
terrorists have already attacked a power plant in 2006 in Australia. (For and Against Nuclear Power) Moreover, radioactive waste and uranium fuel cargo can be usurped by terrorists to create bombs made of fatal waste material. Additionally, the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 emphasised that governments have to keep the risk in mind as nuclear power plants may be harmful to their citizens and environment, as well as
“50, 000” that’s the estimated total of people who were forced to leave their belonging in Chernobyl, Ukraine. The atomic meltdown at Chernobyl Ukraine is the worst disaster for humanity. The atomic meltdown leads to deformity’s, death, and was completely avoidable. The atomic meltdown at Chernobyl, Ukraine is the worst disaster from humanity because the radiation released in the atomic meltdown created deformities in children born in the years after the accident this mean that even after the meltdown
forget the point that the author himself mentions twenty eight people died from acute radiation sickness, they were all firemen and power plant workers who were exposed to very high levels of radiation, the author compares this to the Piper Alpha disaster in 1988 and the author is true in the assertion that nuclear energy is obviously the safer option but we should not ignore the fact that human lives were lost none the less we must not accept nuclear power merely on the fact that it kills less people
To a large extent the fallout of the Chernobyl disaster could have been minimised if effective emergency procedures had been in place. The cause of the disaster had been human error but the consequences could have been minimised, had the correct procedures been followed and had the emergency systems not been switched off. The crew purposely switched the emergency procedures to avoid any possible interruptions (source 7). The graphite rods had been completely retracted out of the core leaving the
radiation into the atmosphere can be a dangerous venture but some countries use Nuclear energy as their alternative energy source. No problems have risen apart from Chernobyl in Ukraine and Fukushima in Japan. Huge amounts of nuclear radiation were emitted into the atmospheres and caused massive disasters with nobody being able to live in Chernobyl as the environment was affected hugely. If that were to happen in South Africa not only would the environment be affected but also the economy of the country