nature here in our country. Second reason‚ nuclear power plant is one of the most devastating accidents a place could have; these plants cannot guarantee us safeness that we needed. Just like Chernobyl‚ it all began with an accident‚ but what its effect‚ the misery of the people living in Chernobyl. Now‚ the place is like a ghost town‚ lifeless. Danger of exposing to radioisotopes or harmful rays that are emitted from the exploded reactor 4of the plant; people leave the place for safety. If this
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needs. 2. There have been serious accidents with a small number of nuclear power stations. The accident at Chernobyl (Ukraine) in 1986‚ led to 30 people being killed and over 100‚000 people being evacuated. In the preceding years another 200‚00 people were resettled away from the radioactive area. Radiation was even detected over a thousand miles away in the UK as a result of the Chernobyl accident. It has been suggested that over time 2500 people died as a result of the accident. 3. There are
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plant. Drawbacks of nuclear power generation The waste leftover from nuclear power energy is certainly hazardous and it has to be cautiously looked after for numerous years. The Chernobyl disaster was a terrible nuclear accident which killed thousands of people‚ which occurred on 26 of April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine. Many children were suffered from thyroid cancer because they didn’t eat iodine medicine. An explosion and fire released large quantities of radioactive
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human beings. A lot of radioactive substance is released into the air intentionally so that the government wanted to know the influence of radioactive substance in human body. In this plan‚ the same quantity of radioactive substance released from Chernobyl power plant is released. Because of this‚ people in Hanford suffered from many kind of cancer including thyroid cancer. Nuclear testing have been carried out over 2‚300 times and all of the radioactive substance that is created by nuclear testing
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Atomic energy is energy produced by atoms. The term originated in 1903 when Ernest Rutherford began to speak of the possibility ofatomic energy.[1] The term was popularized by H. G. Wells in the phrase‚ "splitting the atom"‚ devised at a time prior to the discovery of the nucleus. Atomic energy also may refer to: * Nuclear binding energy‚ the energy required to split a nucleus of an atom * Nuclear potential energy‚ the potential energy of the particles inside an atomic nucleus * Nuclear
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nuclear power is when something goes wrong and an accident occurs. Radiation is released into the environment and people get hurt. Two of the most famous nuclear accidents occurred at the Three Mile Island reactor 2 in the United States and the Chernobyl reactor 4 in the former Soviet Union. In this text we will discuss these two disasters‚ along with correcting a few common misconceptions about nuclear accidents. The Myth of a Reactor Explosion: It is impossible for any PWR or LWR nuclear reactor
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Nuclear Power: A Burden or a Blessing? When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima‚ Japan‚ the world was thrust into the atomic age. Nuclear power had become a reality. It promised to provide clean‚ efficient energy for centuries to come. Despite all of the promises‚ nuclear power has only been put into minimal use. Only a few of the nuclear plants that the government planned on building have actually been built. Some of the plants that were constructed have been shut down. Now‚ more
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The Fukushima Nuclear Plant The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant was built in Okuma‚ Fukushima‚ to provide Japan with electricity. The plant consists of six nuclear reactors that were built during different times in the 1970s. The reactors were built close together primarily because finding a new location would make a new reactor very expensive‚ compared to the addition of a new reactor. The plant was constructed near the sea because nuclear plants consumes massive amount of waters just
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/tol/news/environment/article6845033.ece. Accessed 11th March 2011. • Greenpeace International (2011). “About Greenpeace”‚ http://www.greenpe ace.org/international/about/. Accessed 9th March 2011. • IAEA‚ (2011). “Revisiting Chernobyl: 20 Years Later”‚ http://www.iaea.org/ newscenter/focus/chernobyl/. Accessed 11th March 2011. • Oxford Dictionaries Online: The World’s most Trusted Dictionaries‚ (2011). http://oxforddictionaries.com. Accessed 7th March 2011. • The Coca-Cola Company‚ (2011). “Nutrition Lables”
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dioxide‚ it is keeping down the greenhouse effect while producing the same amount of energy costing the same as fossil fuels. Although it is normally a very reliable source of energy it does have a few disadvantages. In 1986 a nuclear power plant in Chernobyl Ukraine‚ had a massive meltdown due to flawed design and inadequately trained personnel. “Two workers died during the meltdown and another 28 died within the next few weeks due to radiation poisoning. Many other deaths were related to the fallout
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