Wide variety of dangers
Raffy Oriel
25 May 2011
Re: Art today, passé tomorrow
Yah right!!! That’s totally misleading, Edwin. You always make it sound so simple but there’s really much more to it than meets the eye. Anybody who can afford can easily own several computers in order to have the current state of the art or top of the line in computers. Can we afford to do that with nuclear power plant? You’ve got to be kidding us.
In addition, we have also to take into account the costly maintenance of nuclear power plant most especially in the handling and safeguarding of environmentally dangerous nuclear waste products that are radioactive for hundreds or thousands or even millions of years. Nuclear energy isn’t clean. It contaminates our planet earth with long-lived radioactive nuclear waste.
We must bear in mind that there are a wide variety of dangers associated with the use of nuclear energy. The greatest danger is when the whole system or an individual component of a nuclear power plant causes the reactor core to malfunction resulting in a nuclear meltdown. At this point, nuclear energy is a monster beyond modern technology and human control causing destruction to human beings, to our water system, food chain, environment and natural resources.
Another serious danger associated with nuclear power plants is the threat of terrorism. That’s right. There are really lots of things to worry about the safety of nuclear power including vulnerability to terrorist attack, production of fissile material to make nuclear bombs, environmental impact and the danger of a highly destructive meltdown.
According to the news, an explosion and fire in Chernobyl released large quantities of radioactive contamination into the atmosphere, which spread over much of Russia and Europe. It was necessary to evacuate more than 600,000 people, and an estimated 4,000 died from radiation-induced cancers. The battle to contain the contamination and avert a greater catastrophe ultimately involved over 500,000 workers and cost an estimated 18 billion rubles, crippling the Russian economy.
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