Essay On Nuclear Power Plant

In March 2011, Fukushima, Japan, the nation was hit by a 8.9 magnitude earthquake followed by a devastating tsunami. Many lives were lost that day and buildings collapsed everywhere. It was a painful sight to see, and to the Japanese people, it was a sad and worrisome time. The Japanese people was not afraid of the earthquake and tsunami since they learn from young to cope those disasters since it was a normal event for a land which situated on the ‘Ring of Fire’, a large active volcanic and tectonic zone ringing North and South America, Asia and island arcs in Southeast Asia (“Ring of Fire”). It was the news from the government that worried them. The news of the Fukushima Daiichi Plant was hit by the earthquake and the tsunami has caused the waste to spread all over the sea. For some Japanese people, it was history all over again. After that incident, the people of the Japan has spoken out to the government to shut down every nuclear reactor in the country and the government accepted the people’s voices with all 48 reactors going off line (Gatehouse). However, that incident has another effect that may take its toll towards the science of nuclear. Should we still use nuclear power plant to generate energy for our world? There are many viewpoints on this topic, however, with the evidence that I have gathered and the reaction of other countries, Nuclear power plant brings more harm than benefits to the human population.

Comparing with other sciences, nuclear science is still generally young and new, in fact, scientist only began to delve into nuclear physics during the World War II era(“Atomic Physics”). Nuclear power can come from two sources, nuclear fission, which is the splitting of atoms and nuclear fusion which is the uni...

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...dropped the first atomic bomb onto humans and destroying their lives before the first nuclear power plant, which came out 15 years later to provide electrical energy to the public. Despite being redeemed by the efficiency of nuclear power plant, nuclear science once again being criticized, when in 1986, Chernobyl, Ukraine, an explosion occurred in the nuclear power plant which is one of the most devastating accidents to ever happen in human history. There isn’t much accidents after Chernobyl, but the damage that it caused still have an effect on that land and currently is still inhospitable. Nobody in this world can deny that modern nuclear physics is an accomplishment that shows how capable humans can be, but with the risk and the danger it has, it is better that we leave nuclear science just be and continue to discover other avenues for the safety of human beings.