Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant

March 14, 2013 In his essay “College Pressure” William Zinsser writes about the four main types of pressures that college students face. Economic pressure, parental pressure, peer pressure, and self induced pressure are the main focuses in the essay. Starting the essay with notes from students that they left for their dean is an effective way of engaging readers. First the reader wants to know who Carlos is and of course who all those people that write…

Nuclear Energy: Pros and Cons Jovencey St.Fleur 11th Grade Tabachynsky Deerfield Beach High School 2015-2016 Physics I H 20033900 ________________________________________________________________________ I am submitting my own work and have acknowledged each use of the words, graphics, or ideas of another person through citations and a bibliography. Signature: _____________________________ Date: ________________________ ________________________________________________________________________…

the possibility of being spied on, the rise of the second wave of feminism, and the possibility of accidents within our nuclear power plants. In our history class, we have observed these topics through films made at or around the same time these paranoia incidents were clearly present. Through the film The China Syndrome, we will focus on the paranoia surrounding nuclear power plant corporations during the 1970s. This film is accurate about the conspiracies at that time, showing that corporate…

is the date of the biggest nuclear meltdown in history. While the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, a.k.a. the USSR, was in control of Ukraine, it built multiple nuclear power plants. However, these nuclear power plants were not as safe as the ones built in the west-ern countries due to the lack of a safety culture in the USSR. Soviet Russia had boasted how its nuclear power plants were the safest ones in the world in previous press conferences addressing the nuclear meltdown at Three Mile…

Nuclear Power: A Ticking Time Bomb Nuclear energy is currently one of the major energy sources in the world right now. It is the world’s third most utilized fuel currently, only behind fossil fuels and hydroelectricity (“Nuclear Power Today”). However, it also has the highest disaster potential out of all the energy sources currently in use. This was made evident by the fallout of the triple meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi in Japan (“Nuclear Exodus”). This has led to the resurfacing of arguments…

demonstration to the world of the immense power created by splitting the atom. This fostered the exigence for the prevailing global superpowers, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the United States (US), to develop larger, more destructive nuclear weapons as each side braced its country for the possibility of global, thermonuclear war. By the mid-1950’s, both the US and the USSR developed nuclear weapons that dwarfed the size and destructive power of Fat Boy and Little Man…

portion of this pollution is caused by the process of power production. The reason that the production of electricity is such a large contributor to climate change is due to the usage of coal. According to the US Energy Information Administration, a non-biased governmental agency that reports statistical information on US power production for expert study, roughly 33% of the electricity produced in America is produced by coal (“Electric Power Monthly”). This rate is around the same as it is…

iterations of coal powered machines were created such as the steam engine. As the years passed technology became more advanced and as a result the demand for energy increased, but with little change in how it was obtained. The way we obtain energy since to power our lives has for the most part gone unchanged, we burn coal. Coal, or fossil fuels as they…

non-renewable power sources include coal power, natural gas power, and other fossil fuels. These fuel sources create heat, which boils water and makes steam. This steam turns a turbine, which turns a generator, which makes electricity. The advantage to using these sources is that they are inexpensive. The disadvantage is that they are dirty sources of power. They all pollute in one way or another. The fossil fuels are not renewable, meaning they will run out someday. Nuclear power makes heat…

energy such as solar power, wind power, biomass…