Biology: cell biology & radioactivity, thoughts on Fukushima disaster and implications of nuclear power
The Long term effects of Fukushima on our oceans
"... Fukushima's ruptured reactors has never stopped spilling into the ocean. That's now 2,200+ days and counting".
I'm really perplexed why this plant has not been shut down entirely given the above statement, so I went to google to learn more about it, finding numerous articles on protests and rallies since 2011, and a very recent article from just last week, July 14th, 2017, stating: "Toxic waste produced by one of the world's worst nuclear disasters will be dumped into the sea, according to the head of the Japanese company tasked with cleaning up the radioactive mess, despite protests from local fishermen." To add insult to injury, another article speaks to the 26,000 people who voluntarily evacuated during the event and refused to return to the region have now been denied any further housing assistance, the official in charge of the recovery effort of Fukushima responding to this that they should bear, “ self-responsibility for their own decisions."
I don't understand this: so Fukushima is still polluting oceans, is still operating while doing this, and those who reasonably evacuated during the crisis are told to take care of themselves and be responsible, when, if responsibility is in question, it is the plant and the government supporting its operation who seem responsible to me.
So I am very saddened by the current status of Fukushima, six years since the disaster. I also wouldn't want to return to the regions near this nuclear plant.
Of course this is very concerning for our oceans as waste is continually dumped and there is talk of diluting more radioactive water being held in storage tanks and adding this to the ocean as well.
Implications of nuclear power plants
According to our reading, What is a Nuclear Reactor?: "according to the laws of nature, heat cannot fully be converted into another form of energy, some of the heat is residual and is released into the environment. Releasing either direct (into a river), or indirect... this process is common to all thermal plants."
This statement left me thinking that there is no full-proof way that any nuclear power plant can be safe, because we can't get around the "laws of nature". Either way, there is nuclear 'runoff' and it's not like we have an exhaust pipe on our planet which shuttles this harmful energy elsewhere.
The point of nuclear power plants is more energy, mainly for electricity. I'm left wondering how we got to this place of electricity being so vital to our modern existence. Of course it's not vital everywhere, some parts of the world still actually operate from sun rise to sun set, and there are numerous ways of harnessing nature's own movements such as wind and water, or the power of the sun, as a means of energy.
We need another Yi the Great! Yi harnessed the natural movement of water in China and became an emperor for doing so (whereas his father went against the qi ji of water by building dams, Yi saw that water likes to flow! So he constructed canals to work with water's inherent movement). We need an Yi for nuclear power who can turn this around for us, and he or she can be emperor :)
Or perhaps we all need to be a version of Yi and recognize that a sustainable future requires a hard look at what we do now and asking if we can do it differently...
"... Fukushima's ruptured reactors has never stopped spilling into the ocean. That's now 2,200+ days and counting".
I'm really perplexed why this plant has not been shut down entirely given the above statement, so I went to google to learn more about it, finding numerous articles on protests and rallies since 2011, and a very recent article from just last week, July 14th, 2017, stating: "Toxic waste produced by one of the world's worst nuclear disasters will be dumped into the sea, according to the head of the Japanese company tasked with cleaning up the radioactive mess, despite protests from local fishermen." To add insult to injury, another article speaks to the 26,000 people who voluntarily evacuated during the event and refused to return to the region have now been denied any further housing assistance, the official in charge of the recovery effort of Fukushima responding to this that they should bear, “ self-responsibility for their own decisions."
I don't understand this: so Fukushima is still polluting oceans, is still operating while doing this, and those who reasonably evacuated during the crisis are told to take care of themselves and be responsible, when, if responsibility is in question, it is the plant and the government supporting its operation who seem responsible to me.
So I am very saddened by the current status of Fukushima, six years since the disaster. I also wouldn't want to return to the regions near this nuclear plant.
Of course this is very concerning for our oceans as waste is continually dumped and there is talk of diluting more radioactive water being held in storage tanks and adding this to the ocean as well.
Implications of nuclear power plants
According to our reading, What is a Nuclear Reactor?: "according to the laws of nature, heat cannot fully be converted into another form of energy, some of the heat is residual and is released into the environment. Releasing either direct (into a river), or indirect... this process is common to all thermal plants."
This statement left me thinking that there is no full-proof way that any nuclear power plant can be safe, because we can't get around the "laws of nature". Either way, there is nuclear 'runoff' and it's not like we have an exhaust pipe on our planet which shuttles this harmful energy elsewhere.
The point of nuclear power plants is more energy, mainly for electricity. I'm left wondering how we got to this place of electricity being so vital to our modern existence. Of course it's not vital everywhere, some parts of the world still actually operate from sun rise to sun set, and there are numerous ways of harnessing nature's own movements such as wind and water, or the power of the sun, as a means of energy.
We need another Yi the Great! Yi harnessed the natural movement of water in China and became an emperor for doing so (whereas his father went against the qi ji of water by building dams, Yi saw that water likes to flow! So he constructed canals to work with water's inherent movement). We need an Yi for nuclear power who can turn this around for us, and he or she can be emperor :)
Or perhaps we all need to be a version of Yi and recognize that a sustainable future requires a hard look at what we do now and asking if we can do it differently...
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