Our Most Recent Nuclear Disaster
By Joshua Davison
| Fukushima Plant melting down. As seen from the sea. |
Since I have been writing off
and on all quarter about nuclear reactors and the harm they can impose upon
people and their environments, in the go posts and this blog, I thought it
would be nice to end up on the Japanese Fukushima disaster. As you all may already know, after last year’s (almost exactly a year ago) earthquake in Japan the Fukushima Nuclear Plant experienced complete meltdowns
in their 1, 2, and 3 reactors. This
means that these reactors means the core of the nuclear reactors at Fukushima
accidently melted. I will not go into
details about how this happens, but will go more into how this effects the
environment and its people.
It has been reported that the
radiation levels around the meltdown have approached the Chernobyl disaster of
1986, but are not quite as high as that mega disaster. However, radioactively contaminated tap water
had been reported as far away as Tokyo.
With massive amounts of people dying from cancers from the Chernobyl
incident it makes you wonder what will come to be in Japan in this
respect. Many people in the surrounding
areas have definitely exceeded their safe dose level of radiation during the
time period. Even today, Japan is not
letting people into the area for long periods of time.
We must begin to realize that
maybe putting nuclear reactors around large population centers is probably not
a good thing in case of meltdowns. It
certainly is not good to put nuclear reactors on highly unstable fault lines
like Japan where earthquakes are commonplace.
As always, it is not the fat cat who gets hurt by this disaster, but the
thousands of individuals who lost their homes and farmland to high radiation
levels. These people lost their
livelihoods and Japan lost a great source of farmland in the Fukushima area
because someone decided it was smart to put reactors on unstable fault lines
and not keep the machinery up to speck.
When will the higher ups of government ever learn?
They need to
start listening to the little man who is the most hurt by things like nuclear
reactors, coal plants, or any other pollution inducing factory.
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