Vera Miles

As a worker at “Top Coal Australia”, I absolutely believe that we must not use uranium as an energy source. Many people believe that uranium is a clean and a good source of energy. It is most certainly not. It is dangerous and if there is a radioactive spill, many people can be fatally injured or even killed. Uranium is not an easy source to mine and it is extremely harmful to the air while transporting it to and from. Radioactive waste disposal is an undoubtedly big issue with having uranium…

During the early 20th century building airships became very popular, and Germany quickly became the most developed and impressive builders of this type of lighter-than-air innovation. A German businessman, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin was one of the leading inventors who build many experimental dirigibles. The Hindenburg was one of Zeppelin and Ludwig Dürr’s most successful airship. By 1936, the Hindenburg had concluded ten very successful trips which made it very popular and well known.…

It is unbelievable how many people can be killed by a small decision made by a government. In two articles, Chernobyl: before, during, and after by Cindy Rush, and Chernobyl Remains a Dead Zone by Lawrence Gable focuses on what happened in Chernobyl. On April 26, 1986 the Chernobyl nuclear power plant blew up. Leaving the surrounding area in ashes and spreading nuclear radiation across Europe, causing several deaths and chronic diseases. With the government’s ignorance, deaths of the people who…

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…

General Electric and maintained by the Tokyo Electric Power Company. Fukushima Dai’ichi lies about 140 miles northeast of Tokyo, Japan directly on the Pacific Ocean. At 1446 hrs (local JST) on Friday March 11, 2011, a Magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck 43 miles east of Sendai, Japan, (or about 65 miles northeast of Fukushima Dai’ichi) centered in the Pacific Ocean with a depth of about 19 miles. Names the Great East Japan Earthquake, it was the most powerful recorded earthquake ever to strike…

Hello name’s Cameron, Cameron sydnor and I used to work at a nuclear facility . The chernobyl nuclear disaster was a terrible event, yet very few people actually know the backstory of the plant. Despite the story being fairly interesting. For example did you before the meltdown the leader of the facility once said “the chance of a full scale meltdown is one in a million” clearly this man cannot see the future or else he would have said (scream this) “OH NO THE PLANT IS GOING DOWN WE ARE ALL…

In recent decades, people have always wondered what exactly happened at the Chernobyl power plant and why the media consistently brings it up. The tragedy began in Soviet Ukraine, near the abandoned city of Pripyat, which suffered immediate consequences from the nuclear reactor's explosion. The colossal blast released radiation into the atmosphere which ended up spreading and killing many organisms. This spontaneous accident was recorded all over the world and alarmed many European nations.…

Chernobyl, USSR in 1986 and Fukushima, Japan in 2011, as well as the partial meltdown on Three Mile Island, USA in 1979. Chernobyl was caused by poor design with the lack of secondary containment to prevent radiation leakage in the event of nuclear meltdown. In Fukushima, the coolant generators that were initiated after the earthquake were destroyed by the subsequent tsunami. Three Mile Island was caused by incompetency on the part of the operators. All these events had castrophoric effects…

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…

Nuclear power seems to be a perfectly viable sustainable energy option to satiate our present and future energy needs. There are fewer greenhouse gas emissions and far less waste production when compared to conventional energy sources. So, what seems to be the problem? As good as it is, Nuclear power does have it’s drawbacks and comes with it’s own set of challenges. Even though the amount of waste produced, is far less, it is highly toxic and nuclear waste disposal is a big challenge. Most…