Japanese Nuclear Crisis indepth

This video explains how could a meltdown happen.It shows the moment of the Nuclear bomb and the power plant after the Tsunami in Fukushima, in Japan. In this video clip, we can clearly see a lot of people lost their homes and also many people were sepaerated because of the Nuclear Radiation. With more states of emergency being declared at nuclear facilities in Japan, nuclear scientist Imad Khadduri says the risk of damage from meltdown is less than in disasters such as Chernobyl and Three Mile Island.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDfAZhhqkCI&feature=player_embedded

Japanese Nuclear Meltdown

These two pictures show the meltdown of Japanese Nuclear Power Plants after the Tsunami and Earthquake in Fukushima.

http://www.onlineusanews.com/japan-nuclear-meltdown-12351.php

http://www.pakistaninewschannel.com/no-danger-for-philippines-from-japan%E2%80%99s-nuclear-meltdown-scientists.html



Chernobyl Nuclear accident

On 26 April 1986 at 01:23:40 a.m. (UTC+3) reactor number four at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant located in the Soviet Union near Pripyat in Ukraine exploded. Further explosions and the resulting fire sent a plume of highly radioactive fallout into the atmosphere and over an extensive geographical area. Nearly thirty to forty times more fallout was released than Hiroshima. The plume drifted over parts of the western Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, Northern Europe, and eastern North America. Large areas in Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia were badly contaminated, resulting in the evacuation and resettlement of over 336,000 people. According to official post-Soviet data, about 60% of the radioactive fallout landed in Belarus.
In the picture shows the boy was impacted by the radioation.


http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/04/meltdown_at_chernobyl_nuclear.php

The Real Cost of Nuclear Power

There are a lot of people worry on the economic problems for building nuclear power plants, because we are the taxpayers. In this article, Michael Grunewald is focusing on the finances of nuclear industries and costs related to the construction of nuclear power plants.He said "Since 2008, proposed reactors have been quietly scrapped or suspended in at least nine states--not by safety concerns or hippie sit-ins but by financial realities. Other projects have been delayed as cost estimates have tripled toward $10 billion a reactor, and ratings agencies have downgraded utilities with atomic ambitions." The capitalists and financiers do not like to invest in companies constructing nuclear power plants due to the high costs. It's noted the new nuclear power plants of countries rely on government financing of such projects. The nuclear companies could not obtain private financing for power plants. Also it points out the history of U.S. nuclear power and the nuclear crisis in Japan. According to this article, as a taxpayer, I also don't like to spend my money on the high cost plants and still be in dangerous. I am not saying new types of energy are not good, but at this point, we already have a lot of environmental problems and we are also in the Great Recession of our economy, so can government come up with some issues to balance the environment and economy.


http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?sid=a0583c52-6ef9-45c5-83ab-5459b3a6d88a%40sessionmgr4&vid=6&hid=10&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=buh&AN=59652014