Nuclear Energy

Nuclear Energy is a potential energy of particles inside an atomic nucleus. There are a lot of Nuclear Power plants around the world right now. Everybody knows the Nuclear power is useful, but most of us didn't face the problems of Nuclear power plants until the Janpanese Nuclear Crisis. There was an accident in 1979 in U.S., which is called Three Mile Island accident. That's the second largest accident in the world history. I don't agree to build any more plants, because it costs more than $800 million dollars per one. In 2011, we still in the Great Economic Recession, we still have economic problems, so we don't want to spend a lot on the plants that there are still so many arguements on the safety problems on the plants. Therefore, I am going to do some more research on this topic to surport my opinions which is we should find better way to produce clean energy and helps our economic growth.

Sunday, May 15, 2011

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
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