This essay will explore the social perception of nuclear energy after Chernobyl. Focusing on affected human health in the contemporary context attempting to argue the need of concealing nuclear related information benefitting modernity. Explored by using architectural, scientific, and theoretical texts from, Le Corbusier, “Colin Rowe and Robert Slutzky, Jacques-Alain Miller and Richard Miller, Eve Blau, IAEA, WHO, and UNSCEAR. We analyze transparency in information represented by the media and the perception of the nuclear industry after the failure of the Chernobyl plant affecting human health. Perception of nuclear energy is revised by the results of Chernobyl’s effects on human health. The accident on the 26th of April 1986 triggered
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To this day governments’ concealment of relevant information to the media morphs the impression of nuclear energy. Freedom to knowledge breaks down political secrecy, allowing to an extent transparency in information. With human psyche experiencing more disasters in the past millennium the need of governmental control of information seems redundant as experience dictates decisions. Chernobyl’s affects are extensive but more than one account of nuclear meltdown affected the perception of nuclear energy of the use of nuclear energy, Three Mile Island and Fukushima. International perception on nuclear energy changed after the Three Mile Island incident in 1979 with no fatalities slowing the industry’s growth. The accident on Three Mile Island led to developments of safety precautions that should have been employed in Chernobyl. The accident in Chernobyl showed the same trends as the Three Mile Island incident. Fukushima’s incident led new speculation on plant safety and emergency measures. The lack of development morphs the transparency in information presented regarding safety of plant design with similar trends …show more content…
Emerging information suggests the reactor was designed to fail. Initially designed for civilian use the, Soviets made it to be capable of producing nuclear grade plutonium, the flaws in the design were acknowledged but ignored. The scale and severity of the accident was said to be unforeseen, with the media portraying the government as surprised as public outcries before the accident suggest otherwise. The lack of transparency between government and plant employee resulted in confusion with safety protocols, leading to lose of controls causing the ‘unforeseen’ meltdown and destruction of the reactor with the widespread release of radioactive matter. Under the Kremlin’s intense Russification program, Ukraine was urbanized by the subtle loss of culture and history and language was marginalized. Lack of interest in information based on background regarding the problems of the nuclear plant resulted in the avoidable disaster. As McConnell say “The Communist government’s callous disregard for human life and health was not a momentary brain freeze, nor was it an accident; it was deliberate,” suggesting representation morphed by means of reality . Unlike the Soviet Union, the United States representation and reality of nuclear energy are homogenized, releasing information pertaining nuclear accidents and breakdown allowing transparency between he government and public. Le
To this day governments’ concealment of relevant information to the media morphs the impression of nuclear energy. Freedom to knowledge breaks down political secrecy, allowing to an extent transparency in information. With human psyche experiencing more disasters in the past millennium the need of governmental control of information seems redundant as experience dictates decisions. Chernobyl’s affects are extensive but more than one account of nuclear meltdown affected the perception of nuclear energy of the use of nuclear energy, Three Mile Island and Fukushima. International perception on nuclear energy changed after the Three Mile Island incident in 1979 with no fatalities slowing the industry’s growth. The accident on Three Mile Island led to developments of safety precautions that should have been employed in Chernobyl. The accident in Chernobyl showed the same trends as the Three Mile Island incident. Fukushima’s incident led new speculation on plant safety and emergency measures. The lack of development morphs the transparency in information presented regarding safety of plant design with similar trends …show more content…
Emerging information suggests the reactor was designed to fail. Initially designed for civilian use the, Soviets made it to be capable of producing nuclear grade plutonium, the flaws in the design were acknowledged but ignored. The scale and severity of the accident was said to be unforeseen, with the media portraying the government as surprised as public outcries before the accident suggest otherwise. The lack of transparency between government and plant employee resulted in confusion with safety protocols, leading to lose of controls causing the ‘unforeseen’ meltdown and destruction of the reactor with the widespread release of radioactive matter. Under the Kremlin’s intense Russification program, Ukraine was urbanized by the subtle loss of culture and history and language was marginalized. Lack of interest in information based on background regarding the problems of the nuclear plant resulted in the avoidable disaster. As McConnell say “The Communist government’s callous disregard for human life and health was not a momentary brain freeze, nor was it an accident; it was deliberate,” suggesting representation morphed by means of reality . Unlike the Soviet Union, the United States representation and reality of nuclear energy are homogenized, releasing information pertaining nuclear accidents and breakdown allowing transparency between he government and public. Le