...can be avoided if there exist a sound risk management cycle to identify the risks within this project and put a risk management plan in place. What’s more, the influence of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster would be reduced through proper crisis management procedures. There are three major key risk issues findings about the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. The first one is risk identification problems in risk management cycle. The second risk issue is failure in avoiding crisis. The last point discusses communication problems in containing crisis. The damages can be reduced and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster can be avoided if TEPCO management make further research in risk identification process, spend more effort in avoiding crisis rather than only focus on profit generating activities. When the crisis happened properly communicate with government and ensure information transparency help protect the public images of the firm, After in depth research about the case of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster and compare with Three Mile Island nuclear power plant accidents. This report draws lessons from the cases and provides several recommendations for the Fukushima Daiichi and the Japanese government. , 2. Introduction and Aims There are numerous business risks and the kinds of risk vary from business to business, but construction of a risk management plan will use a common process. After understanding potential risks to business and finding ways to reduce...
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...Assessment 1: Risk Management Plan Development and Operation of a Nuclear Power Plant (Taking Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan as an example to make a risk management) Student Name : Cong Danh Bui Student ID :11381581 Lecturer : David Eager Abstract This report will give out a risk management plan for the development and operation of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan, based on the AS/NZS ISO 31000:2009 standard. The report will begin with the definition of communication and consultation task before coming to the establishing the context, which is to define risks in term of finding the internal and external factors or some risk criteria that influencing in risks management. After that, risk assessment is implemented, including identification, analysis and evaluation. Then, some treatments will be applied to adjust those risk event. Finally, recording the process as well as monitoring and review, the crucial task in every risk management, is done to make sure that the management can bring efficiency in improving the control. Figure 1. Risk Management Process (Source NS/NZS ISO 31000:2009) Word count: 2600 words – excluding abstract, reference and appendix Appendix I. Introduction…………………………………………………………………………………......3 1.1. Power Plant Information……………………………………………………………………...4 1.2. Construction Details…………………………………………………………………………..5 II. Communication and Consultant………………………………………………………………..6 III. Establishing the Context…………………………………………………………...
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...Fukushima Radiation Causes Growing National Concern: Time for New EPA Policy Eric Zoppi 3279672 2 December 2013 On March 11th, 2011 the Tōhoku earthquake and the resulting tsunami wreaked havoc upon Japan. Unfortunately, this natural disaster resulted in the largest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl, as the tsunami crippled the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Following this severe breach in security, numerous radioactive isotopes and radioactive particles were released into the environment, specifically the Pacific Ocean and the surrounding air/atmosphere, thus contaminating groundwater, soil and seawater, as well as effectively shutting down a myriad of Japanese fisheries. The ocean and air mainly came in contact with high levels of Iodine-131, Cesium-137, and Cesium-134, as well as lower levels of Tellurium, Uranium, and Strontium, which were concentrated closer to the surrounding area of the nuclear power plant. However, the impact that these radioactive materials will have upon the United States, in particular, has caused quite the national controversy. Despite heavy national acceptance of the occurrence of the disaster, two popular and opposing hypotheses have formed as a result of the Media’s lack of focus on recent analyses of the impending effects of Fukushima Disaster upon the U.S.: (1) the radioactive material that leaked as a result of the TEPCO nuclear power plant failure will not have a drastic, threatening...
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...Final Paper PBHE540 The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Name American Public University System Abstract On March 11, 2011, a large earthquake and a powerful tsunami struck the eastern region of Japan, leading to a death toll of more than 15,700 people. Thousands more were injured or went missing, and widespread destruction ensued. Additionally, the Great East Japan Disaster fatally damaged the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station. It eradicated all power, severely affected communications, and caused a loss of cooling to some vital reactor cores. Significant quantities of radioactive materials were released, an isolated “no mans land” was created around the crippled reactors, and thousands of people had to be evacuated from the surrounding area. With concern of radiological emergency management, medicine development, and healthcare implementation, it is important to assess this disaster with intention of learning better methods of execution to apply in future scenarios. The purpose of this assessment is to summarize, observe, and evaluate the emergency responses implemented as a result of the disaster, specifically focusing on the chronology of healthcare implementation, and the many long-term challenges associated with this tragic event. In preparing for the challenges of tomorrow, it is critically important that adaptations are made in lieu of such tragedies, and newer, more advanced understandings of these issues are brought into fruition...
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... Lin Bin Hui | | | | | Objective By analyzing TEPCO as the organization which facing a crisis recently, given us a chance to Study their strengths and weakness and how we are going to assist them in the most effective way. Table of Contents Objective 1 Introduction 3 Corporate Summary 3 Crisis Background 4 Oct Year 2004 & July 2007 4 Mar 2011 – Current 4 Impact from the Crisis 6 Analyse the Tokyo Electric Power Company, Incorporated (TEPCO) 7 SWOT Analysis 7 Strength 7 Weakness 8 Opportunities 9 Threat 10 Criteria in Success 12 Conclusion 13 Resources: 14 Introduction Corporate Summary Figure 1.1.1 – Company logo Tokyo Electricity Power Company (TEPCO) is an electricity utility and was established in 1st May 1951. TEPCO is the fourth power company in Asia, operation 17 nuclear reactors and supplying one-third of Japan’s electricity. The first nuclear unit at Fukushima Dai-Chi (Fukushima) nuclear power plant began operational generation on 26th March 1971. During 1980s and 1990s, the widespread use of air-conditional and IT/OA appliances caused a gap between day and night electricity demands. In order to reduce surplus generation capacity and increase capacity utilization, TEPCO developed pumped storage hydroelectricity power plants and promoted thermal storage units. In 2009, TEPCO is expected to play a key role in achieving Japan's targets for reduced carbon dioxide emissions under the...
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...Fam, S., Xiong, J., Xiong, G., Yong, D. and Ng, D. (2014) ‘Post-Fukushima Japan: The continuing nuclear controversy’, Energy Policy 68: 199-205. Fam et al. discuss the impacts of the 2011 Fukushima disaster and the opposing values and interests that are involved in the nuclear energy debate. The value disagreement exists between the economic benefit of nuclear power versus the nuclear risk as evidenced in the disaster and the interest disagreement occurs for economic security versus environmental and safety risks. Their analysis primarily focusses on the actors in the energy conflict, the role they play and the ingrained institutional barrier to reform in the Japanese nuclear energy sector (Fam et al.: 2014). Fam et al. concludes that the...
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...produce close to 2 billion tons of carbon dioxide every year in the U.S. alone while also emitting lots of other pollution: soot that causes lung diseases; sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides that cause smog and acid rain; and mercury that contaminates fish. In fact, coal kills 4000 times as many people as nuclear power, according to one analysis. 2) It is possible to generate a high amount of electrical energy in one single plant. 3) This technology is readily available. Disadvantages 1) Uranium Waste- The chief danger lies with the mining waste; it contains radium, which is highly radioactive. Radon gas (one of the products that occur after radium undergoes radioactive decay) can expose workers and nearby and nearby communities to an array of health risks like lung cancer, bone cancer and lymphoma. 2) The energy source for nuclear energy is Uranium, which is a scarce resource. It’s supply is estimated to last only for the next 30 to 60 years depending on the actual demand. 3) Nuclear power plants as well as nuclear waste could be preferred targets for terrorist attacks. 4) Risk of Catastrophe- Fukushima has joined Three Mile Island and Chernobyl in the vocabulary of dangerous nuclear mishaps. The explosion at Chernobyl’s nuclear plant in the Ukraine showed how nuclear energy could just as easily destroy us as it nurtures our everyday...
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...City University of Hong Kong Master of Business Administration FB6706 Executive Discovery and Network Group report: Energy resources – Strategies and National Safety (能源战略与国家安全) Presented by Prof. Way Kuo on 18th September 2014 Prepared by Group 14: LEUNG Wai Hung, Calvin (53924394) LU, Yan Hui (53833750) QIU, Tao (53997233) SU, Jiahui (53739822) YANG, Xi (53863790) It was our honor to attend the presentation on “Energy Resources – Strategies and National Safety” given by Professor Way Kuo, the President of City University of Hong Kong and University Distinguished Professor. As an expert in the area of safety reliability, Professor Kuo wrote one of his popular science books named “Key Report of Nuclear Power” (2013), which aroused great impacts. The presentation was based on this book, which we could divide into three areas: Nuclear Safety & Environmental Issues, People’s Acceptance and Public Media Impacts. Nuclear Safety & Environmental Issues In the presentation, Professor Kuo said, currently the main resource to generate electricity was fire, such as coal and gas etc. The next would be water resource, nuclear resource and other new energy resources. In China, the most frequently used was fire to generate electricity. However, this created a lot of environment pollutions such as haze in Beijing. Moreover, in spite of the large amounts of rivers in China, waterpower was still lacking. It could not 1 become an alternative generation to support...
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...Dustyn Macaluso 10/4/15 Soc. of media 330 Media Analysis For chapter one my responsibilities were to cover stories 13-15. Two of these three stories involve health risk and one story pertains to a pro-life argument. The first story I read explained how the nuclear power industry is immune from liability in nuclear accidents. The example used in the article was the 2011 TEPCO Fukushima meltdown. Big corporations commonly go outside the US borders to build their factories or power plants due to two reasons. One much cheaper labor force abroad. Big corporations stand to gain a greater profit if they get close to the same quality of work while paying half the price, sometimes less than what a corporation would pay american workers. Another reason is countries abroad tend to have less strict regulations in certain areas of corporate interest, an example would be the TEPCO. Even though this power plant is host to native Japanese companies, I’m willing to bet General electric has some kind of financial stake invested with Toshiba and Hitachi. Several years after the meltdown there is still radiation present in Fukushima. The Japanese Fisheries research agency conducted a study and found that radiation levels in sea life south of the plant to be 124 times more than the threshold considered safe for human consumption. TEPCO has released inaccurate reports on the actual damage assessed and have released few details to the press to avoid further scrutiny. The real interesting thing...
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...High Risk – Low Return: The case against uranium mining in Queensland Australian Conservation Foundation Australian Manufacturing Workers Union Electrical Trades Union Friends of the Earth North Queensland Conservation Council Queensland Conservation Council Queensland Nuclear Free Alliance The Wilderness Society Cover picture: Mine tailings dam failure at Merriespruit, South Africa gold mine. On the day of the failure 50mm of rain fell in 30 minutes, comparable to flooding rain quantities in Qld in recent summers (source: tailings.info) High Risk – Low Return: The case against uranium mining in Queensland 1. Overview 2. Overstated economic potential 3. Environmental Impacts 4. Radiation and Health 5. Uranium and Indigenous Communities 6. Inadequate Regulation 6.1 Unresolved regulatory and operational issues 7. Beyond mining 7.1 Transportation 7.2 The myth of the peaceful atom: Weapons Proliferation 7.3 The myth of clean energy from nuclear power 7.4 A positive way forward for Queensland 8. Conclusions This report was prepared under the joint auspices of the unions and environmental and social justice groups listed on the cover. March 2013. Authors: R. Taubenfeld, D. Sweeney, J. Green High Risk – Low Return: The case against uranium mining in Queensland In October 2012 the LNP government broke its clear commitment not to allow uranium mining in Queensland. This commitment was the position of the LNP at the March 2012 state election and was reaffirmed...
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...To: Iman EL Meniawy From: Mathieu Theriault, Consultant for Ram Horn Consulting. Date: November 24, 2014 SUBJECT: Canadian Operations Analysis Memo Thank you for allowing me to work and share my findings of Cameco to you. As requested, I have evaluated the business, industry, and issues Cameco currently face. My analysis uses a few citations related to the industry. Based on my analysis, here are some of my thoughts on current opportunities, threats and competition Cameco’s currently faces. Opportunity Nuclear energy offers a solution to the world’s search of environmentally friendly energy sources. It is expected that the demand for Uranium will increase considerably resulting in a substantial need of mining company’s .Following Fukushima disaster; it has opened the door for companies, like Cameco, to acquire new investments at a lesser cost. According to Andrea Jennetta (2013), politicians need to get a grip and get leading on nuclear energy – not wasting time and resources on intermittent technologies that blow billions of dollars. Threat With Uranium market being unpredictable there are continuously risks with market fluctuation, stock prices and environmental elements. Equipment breakdowns water in- flows and cave-ins at mine sites can cause shutdowns or lags in production. Weather conditions and unforgiving natural elements are a major threat to business survival; effectives mine sites, reactors, exploration sites and potentially...
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...with proper safety protocol and renovation to addressing the serious domestic threat of aging nuclear reactors. Since its inception, the NRC has pushed nuclear power to the people, but has since let its duty to the public fail the test of moral obligation. Skirting safety investigations and legitimate refitting of old nukes, the NRC and the industry it puppeteers could end up with a nuclear meltdown on its hands. The cost for such inaction may very well include billions of taxpayer dollars in cleanup and aid, and the untold millions of displaced or irradiated civilians. Though Goodell’s article does address the possibility of imminent risk taken by the nuclear industry, he falls short in conveying the sense of urgency that is needed in order to effect change for America’s nuclear industry, ultimately making his article more PAST than CUSP. My analysis and research will fill in the gaps of forensic evidence and touch on the due deliberation by improving upon Goodell’s poor use of rhetorical modes. One of the PAST things that Goodell does is underrepresent former Sen. Pete Domenici as an influential nuclear energy advocate, which does not contribute to a deep understanding of his significance in the one mentioning. In my findings there is certainly enough evidence that can reflect decades of examples that can illustrate what kind of person...
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...Emergency management is about identifying risks, assessing weaknesses, and devising strategies for reducing such risks (Lindell & Prater, 2003). While there is a common theme among hazards, emergencies and disasters each has minor differences and may require various approaches by the emergency manager. The most common misconception is emergency management agencies want to eliminate all risks by establishing procedures but there is no direct way to remove the daily or infrequent events that can occur. A hazard is a source of danger or extreme event that has the potential to affect people, property, and the natural environment in a given location (Lindell & Prater, 2003). Hazards can be either natural or manmade and are detrimental to certain...
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...ranked among the world's most innovative countries according to the International Monetary Fund, and has already banked a $4.5bn reserve fund for 2020. Secondly, Tokyo’s government projects that the Games will generate $30 billion in economic benefits for Japan—and that, it is said, is a conservative estimate since it calculates only direct spending on the Olympics. One of the ideas is to boost domestic consumption, helping wrest the country from a couple decades of debilitating deflation and create more than 150,000 jobs, as SMBC Nikko Securities claims. Thirdly, with an estimated $10 billion bill, the Tokyo cost would be below the amount spent by London for the 2012 games and Beijing for the 2008 Olympiad, shows the Bureau of Economic Analysis. So, the Committee evidently thought it better to go with Japan’s fiscal stability instead of exotic but risky Istanbul or...
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...was affected when Japan was struck with natural disasters (Earthquake and Tsunami). This sudden disaster sent everyone around the world into frenzy. It affected Japan’s ports, shipping and logistics. As a result of the natural disasters, ports in the northern area of Japan had to stop operations after the Tsunami washed away port facilities, leaving the area in tatters. Ports such as Hachinohe, Ishinomaki and Onahama were severely damaged and it would take months before operations can resume. It will take some time for Japan to rebuild itself as this is the worst disaster to hit the country since the Hiroshima/Nagasaki nuclear bombing during the World War 2. 1.2 Objectives of Project The team will be doing a research and critical analysis on how the crisis has affected Japan’s economy and how the revival of Japan will benefit the shipping economy. The areas of focus will be on the economic impacts of the various shipping markets and other factors contributing to the crisis and forecasting the future outcome in the shipping industry. We intend to go beyond the surface and dig deep into the crisis to fully understand how dealing with a crisis really works. This includes looking at past records as well as analyzing the situation in a chronological pattern – 1) Before the crisis, 2) During the crisis and 3) After the crisis. 1.3 Methodology and Scope To assist the team’s research, information will be sourced out from newspaper articles, books and internet websites...
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