More than 25 years later, the effort to contain the Chernobyl accident is far from over. Everyday workers in white suits report for duty to construct a new concrete shield to replace a massive sarcophagus built in 1986 that contains the still-radioactive core. It’s beginning to deteriorate and could collapse, which may let loose another radioactive cloud into the air. Ihor Gramotkin, director of the Chernobyl power plant was asked when the reactor site could again become inhabitable, he replied, “Atleast 20,000 years.”
This is because some of the isotopes released during the nuclear accident will stay radioactive for tens of thousands of years, clean up is the work not just of first responders but also of their descendants and their descendants' descendants. It’s fair to say that Chernobyl is still a danger zone to this very day. Now you may ask, should we have a nuclear power plant in Australia?
That’s where I say no, however there are some benefits to building a nuclear power plant. Here are some of the advantages:
1. No controlled air pollutants, such as sulphur and particulates, or greenhouse gases
2. Of all energy sources, nuclear energy has perhaps the lowest impact on the environment
3. Nuclear power plants provide low-cost, predictable power at stable prices.
You may think that sounds all too good, however the bad out weighs it all.
For example in the Chernobyl accident in 1984 40,000 people died from radioactive induced
Paragraph 1 Cammy: The Chernobyl plant was built in Ukraine. The plant was built In the city of Pripyat and was positioned nearby the houses of many workers and their families. Before the accident, it was barely getting started and consisted of four nuclear reactors. At the time of the accident, there were two nuclear reactors in construction. The plant was built near an artificial lake and was there for the purposes of cooling the reactors.…
The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, disaster of April 1986 is known as the worst disaster in history. The disaster is not focused on one person's actions, but all that were involved in the controlling and building of it. A key contributor to the explosion though, was Anatoly Dyatlov, t the chief engineer who went against protocol (Discovery Channel disaster at Chernobyl). The Nuclear power plant was located 20 km south of the border of Belarus and 130 km north of Kiev (Chernobyl Accident 1986)…
protective gear- they poured tonnes of water on the fire but nothing seemed to put the fire out. They were all exposed to lethal amounts of radiation. Two men died that night and 28 men died later on in the coming months, they are the first victims of Chernobyl. For the next 7 months 500,000 men will forge a hand to hand battle with radiation. Thanks to these men they stopped another explosion, being 10x more powerful than Hiroshima that would of taken out half of Europe. On 27th April, 30 hours after…
The Chernobyl Disaster The year 1986 was a year in which many important events occurred. The Challenger space shuttle burst into flames once it took off, the Voyager 2 space probe was launched years earlier by NASA sent it back with it the first close-up images of Uranus, and Halley's comet ventured through Earth's skies. However, the event that was most significant during this year was the accident that took place at the nuclear power plant known as Chernobyl which is located…
Chernobyl By Landon Chernobyl is a name you've probably heard more than once in your lifetime. It’s known as the worst nuclear disaster of all time. What was a simple backup power energy check turned into a complete nuclear meltdown and caused people to evacuate their homes, thousands of radiation related deaths, and 1000 sq miles of uninhabitable land for the next 100,000 years. Chernobyl is a nuclear power plant 10 km north of the Ukrainian capital Kiev. It housed 4 very large nuclear…
human health. For example, radiation from Japan's Fukushima Daiichi and the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine (formerly part of the Soviet Union) were described as the worst nuclear disaster the world has ever seen. Even though the recent nuclear disaster happened several years ago, solutions to prevent nuclear disasters are still a big question which has not been answered. Back to April 26th, 1986 when Chernobyl, a worst nuclear disaster ever in the world occurred in Ukraine. Over 7 million…
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scientific knowledge in order to gain a greater understanding of the social perspectives of science and truth. I will then examine both scientific and alternative methods of management before assessing if there is any scientific basis to management today. Kuhn (1992) defines science in general as the constellation of facts, theories and methods collected in current texts and scientists as the people who have tried to contribute to these constellations regardless of their success. The idea of progress…
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