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Nuclear Disaster

Nuclear Disaster. Elaina Powell. What The Heck is Going On?. Fukushima Daiichi is a nuclear power plant in Japan. On March 11, 2011, the plant was hit by a tsunami caused by the Tohoku earthquake. The power source of three of the reactors were damaged.

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Nuclear Disaster

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  1. Nuclear Disaster Elaina Powell

  2. What The Heck is Going On? • Fukushima Daiichi is a nuclear power plant in Japan. • On March 11, 2011, the plant was hit by a tsunami caused by the Tohoku earthquake. • The power source of three of the reactors were damaged. • They were unable to effectively use the Residual Heat Removal systems to cool the reactors for three days. • Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale

  3. Events

  4. What the Heck Happened After that? • iodine-131,  caesium-137, Cs-134 • 20km radius around the plant was evacuated, around 300,000 people • 310 square miles declared uninhabitable. • 1,600 deaths caused by the evacuation. • The surrounding area is still radioactive • Clean up is proving to be pointless. • Contamination of the soil and water, both important common resources, around the plant, causing severe heath issues in the wildlife population.

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  6. Let’s Point Fingers (Not that one, you idiots) • The finger was not pointed at Mother Nature, but at the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPC) • Much of the damage could be blamed on insufficient safety measures and equipment. • An example of this is the backup power systems. • TEPC gracefully accepted the fault, and even compensated for the damages caused to property by the radiation and evacuation.

  7. What the Heck Did the Government DO? • Before Fukushima’s big “oops,” the Japanese Government wanted to expand the share of nuclear power… Now, not so much. • Now they are reducing the use of nuclear power. • 38 plants closed, only 2 left open! • The public goes Anti-nuke! • "By shattering the government's long-pitched safety myth about nuclear power, the crisis dramatically raised public awareness about energy use and sparked strong anti-nuclear sentiment". -The Japan Times

  8. So, basically… What the Heck?!? • The nuclear power plant went boom because they weren’t prepared for the weather. • Grossness and radiation spilled everywhere, and everyone within 20 km had to be evacuated. • The water supply and marine life is useless… Actually, that whole area sucks. • The company owned up and admitted it was their bad. • The country shut almost all of their nuclear plants and got power elsewhere. • The public of Japan began an Anti-nuclear movement.

  9. What the Heck is this Crap?!? • http://www.psr.org/environment-and-health/environmental-health-policy-institute/responses/costs-and-consequences-of-fukushima.html • http://world-nuclear.org/info/Safety-and-Security/Safety-of-Plants/Fukushima-Accident/ • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disaster • http://www.lee.k12.nc.us/cms/lib03/NC01001912/Centricity/Domain/701/Rubric%20for%2020th%20Century%20Environmental%20Disasters%20Presentations.pdf • http://rt.com/news/japan-nuclear-crisis-blame-053/ • http://www.siemens.com/press/pool/de/feature/2012/corporate/2012-03-energiewende/factsheet-e.pdf

  10. *Bonus*

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