Fukushima Nuclear Crisis

For decades, nuclear power has always been a controversial and heated issue in the world, especially in Japan. As you can see, nuclear energy not only provides a large number of jobs but also produces large power-generating capacity to meet the increasing energy consumption needs of residents. Conversely, notwithstanding shuttering thirty-nine plants and most reactors, the utilities still spent money employing more than 6000 people to operate and maintain facilities to await for slim chances of restarting. Furthermore, today, nuclear power is one of the environmentally friendly and beneficial solutions due to its less emission of carbon dioxide (or the greenhouse gases) into the atmosphere than any other fossil fuels'. Nevertheless, nuclear energy contains numerous hidden risks. Once it explodes, it can lead to various unexpected damage to health, financial assets, the environment, psychological injuries,..., while the government can not truly deal with this circumstance. …show more content…
This natural disaster left Japan with a number of negative long-lasting consequences - claiming thousands of lives, demolishing hundreds of villages and completely destroying the nuclear power station which led to a serious nuclear and radiation accident. The Fukushima nuclear disaster did raise either the risk of leukemia or the level of radioactivity in soil, water,... Even until now, everything here still has never been able to be the same as before. Accordingly, it is really easy to understand why the Fukushima meltdown roused a storm of disapproval from Japanese