Nuclear meltdown

The accident at Three Mile Island (TMI), reactor two (TMI-2), not only halted the production of more Nuclear power plants in the United States but also taught us the importance of having: Workers with the appropriate knowledge, education, experience, and training with handling of nuclear material, maintenance, and facility operations. A chain of command clearly laid out, with whom needs to be informed, also how to accrue and convey accurate information to ensure safety and continuous operations.…

diagnosed with childhood cancers that were rare. They wanted further and deeper examinations being done on the land near the Santa Susana Field Laboratory located in the hills above Simi Valley and the San Fernando Valley. This site had a partial nuclear meltdown in 1959 and the amount of radioactive substances that were released into the land and air were unknown. The site has not been cleaned up and the longer it takes to get cleaned up the more harm it causes the residents living…

Just thirty years ago, April 26th, 1986, one of the world’s largest nuclear meltdowns occurred in Pripyat, Ukraine. The workers of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant were running a system test on reactor four and there was a sudden, unexpected power surge. When the workers attempted to conduct an emergency shut off even more power was produced. This caused the reactor vessel to crack and allow air into the core. The core ignited and the fire sent a large plume of highly radioactive smoke. For the…

caused by a testing error tore apart the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. The burst released a radioactive wave that was 400 times more concentrated than the Hiroshima nuclear bomb. To this day, those from the towns nearby and the surrounding area are suffering from the horrible after effects of the horrible disaster. Below are a few facts you might not have known about Chernobyl. 1. The explosion was caused by one of four reactors Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant had 6 reactors on site, but only 4…

Nuclear Accident at Three Mile Island I’m going to tell you about the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island. On March 28, 1979, the power plant built near Middletown, PA partially melted down. Still today it is the most serious accident in U.S. nuclear power plant operating history. The accident is said to have been caused by a combination of equipment malfunctions, design problems, as well as worker errors. (www.NRC.gov/threemileisland) The accident started at 4am on wednesday, March 28,…

The word activist derives from the Latin “actus,” which translates to “a doing, a driving force, or an impulse.” Activism is powerful word and form of action, associated with landmark movements throughout history that prompted social and political change, including abolition, civil rights, human rights, feminism, suffrage, and, of course, the various movements under the umbrella of environmentalism. Yet the efforts of activists do not produce results over night — often times, it takes years and…

century that mankind discovered this phenomenon by scientists like Henri Becquerel, Wilhelm Roentgen and Marie and Pierre Curie and others. In 1945 we can say that tragically began the "Nuclear Age" with the fall of the first atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. From there the certainty that nuclear bombs could destroy our civilization affects political decisions and attitude towards war. But fortunately the man has made the peaceful…

The advantages of using nuclear power rather than any other form of power are many. Using nuclear power alone would cause lower greenhouse gas emissions, it is more powerful and more efficent than any other energy source to which we have access. While solar and wind energies are most likely the cleanest options, they are not as reliable as nuclear power. Uranium, which generates nuclear energy, is very cheap and it does not take much to produce energy. Coal, oil, and natural gas will not…

better known as Nuclear Fission, and currently about 10.9 percent of the world’s energy owes itself to Nuclear Fission. So this is great, right? In theory, this atomic exchange is quite productive: we give little to get a lot. However, it seems that the cost is much more high than originally anticipated. Actually, I think that the use of nuclear energy is immortal. My argument, which is purely deontological, is based on the following facts and premises: First, a consequence of nuclear fission is…

environmental disasters in world history happened on March 11, 2011. The site was the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan. A 9.0 magnitude earthquake was experienced off the northeastern coast of Japan, and this triggered tsunamis that affected shorelines within minutes. Dozens of villages alongside 200 miles of coastline were substantially destroyed. Waves measuring more than 40 feet struck the Fukushima nuclear power plant, located only 150 miles from Tokyo. The plant’s emergency…