...Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster on Agribusiness export Introduction On 11 March 2011, a tremendous earthquake occurred in Fukushima, where locates in East part of Japan. It was a massive earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0 and resulted in a great tsunami which struck a wide area of north-eastern coast of Japan right after the earthquake. The earthquake firstly damaged the electric power supply lines of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and the tsunami caused catastrophic destruction of the operational and safety infrastructure on the site. The combination of effect from earthquake and tsunami caused the loss of on-site and off-site electrical...
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...1. Excusive Summary On March 11, 2011 the unpredicted earthquake and tsunami caused serious nuclear accident in Japan. However, it was triggered by unexpected natural disaster, the accident 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...
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...Fukushima Daiichi – Nuclear Disaster Pedro Eza ID number: z3366523 Executive Summary Fukushima crisis management showed system failures from the public and private actors that led to overall human error and opened a continuous debate within international community about holding nuclear plants under public hands rather than private ones whose incentives clearly differ from the public interest: * The Government and regulatory agencies failed to push Tepco to heed several anomalies and warnings causing the operator to be unprepared at an operational risk level evidencing an embarrassing incompetency to make decisions. * Tepco, as this report will prove below, lacked a culture of safety failing to respond effectively to subsequent events after the accident. For all these, the need to build an adequate resilience framework within the nuclear industry covering the main pillars: Crisis Management, Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity and Emergency Management, are paramount within risk management. Case’s Background On March 11, 2011, Japan suffered an earthquake of magnitude 9.0 with an epicenter near the northeast coast of Honshu, Japan. Consequently, a...
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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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...ACCT 5919 – Fukushima – An Analysis of Risk Management Issues ACCT 5919 – Business Risk Management Fukushima – An Analysis of Risk Management Issues Page 1 of 11 ACCT 5919 – Fukushima – An Analysis of Risk Management Issues 1.0 Executive Summary On 11th March 2011, Japan witnessed the second largest earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0 with its epicentre at Tohoku. The earthquake gave rise to a Tsunami which hit the Fukushima nuclear reactor run by The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO). The disaster escalated by triggering a series of power and equipment failures, explosions, nuclear meltdowns and release of radioactive material. The disaster was regarded as a manmade disaster which could have been avoided with appropriate human response as stated by the chairman of NAIIC, Professor Kiyoshi Kurokawa (Bloomberg, 2012). TEPCO lacked a sense of responsibility to ensure safety and protection to the people effected by the disaster. The nuclear incident was caused by poor earthquake safety planning and faulty post-tsunami communication. The collusion between TEPCO and the regulators resulted in there being no separation of atomic regulation and promotion which led to nuclear power become unstoppable force immune to scrutiny. TEPCO, government and the regulators failed to develop the most basic safety requirements like assessing the probability of damage, preparing for containment of collateral damage, and developing evacuation plans. The lack of training...
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...Public Attitudes to Nuclear Power and Climate Change in Britain Two Years after the Fukushima Accident Summary findings of a survey conducted in March 2013 Wouter Poortinga, Nick F. Pidgeon, Stuart Capstick, and Midori Aoyagi Working Paper 19 September 2013: REF UKERC/WP/ES/2013/006 This document has been prepared to enable results of on-going work to be made available rapidly. It has not been subject to review and approval, and does not have the authority of a full Research Report. 1 T H E U K E N E R G Y R E S E A R C H C E N T R E carries out world-class research into sustainable future energy systems. It is the hub of UK energy research and the gateway between the UK and the international energy research communities. Our interdisciplinary, whole systems research informs UK policy development and research strategy. Contact Details Dr Wouter Poortinga Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University Bute Building, King Edward VII Avenue Cardiff, Wales, UK, CF10 3NB Prof Nick F. Pidgeon, Dr Stuart Capstick Understanding Risk Research Group School of Psychology, Cardiff University 51 Park Place Cardiff, Wales, UK, CF10 3AT Dr Midori Aoyagi Social and Environmental Systems Research Center, National Institute for Environmental studies (NIES), 16-2, Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan PoortingaW@cardiff.ac.uk PidgeonN@cardiff.ac.uk CapstickSB@cardiff.ac.uk Aoyagi@nies.go.jp 2 Contents Acknowledgements ...........................................................................
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...Nuclear power and hydropower, both are able to produce energy without releasing fossil fuels into the air. They are both inexpensive to run but they are expensive to build. Both of these clean air options have advantages and disadvantages. Nuclear power plants have had some major disasters in the past, which make people hesitant of building more. You have to think about the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster and 20th century Chernobyl nuclear meltdown. We have to consider what is best for our environment and if the risk outweighs the benefits. Hydropower was developed many years ago by the “1900’s it accounted for more than 40 percent of United States electricity.” (BOR, 2009) Hydropower produces clean renewable energy that does not release any greenhouse gases and the water evaporates back into the atmosphere. Cost of running hydropower plant is not expensive and can work for years without needing repairs. They provide recreational area, tourist attraction, and controls flooding. The disadvantages “hydropower facilities can have large environmental impacts by changing the environment and affecting land use, homes, and natural habitats in the dam area.”(Turk & Bensel, 2011) There are high investment costs to build a hydropower plant. Hydropower plants can damage the ecosystem by killing off fish and plants. This can affect the fish and their ability to migrate. Therefore, everything has its drawbacks we have to figure out if it is worth it. Nuclear power plants have...
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...Introduction of accident Following a major earthquake, a 15-metre tsunami disabled the power supply and cooling of three Fukushima Daiichi reactors, causing a nuclear accident on 11 March 2011. (http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/fukushima_accident_inf129.html) What is radiation and how it damage people. Radiation may be defined as energy traveling through space. Non-ionizing radiation is essential to life, but excessive exposures will cause tissue damage. All forms of ionizing radiation have sufficient energy to ionize atoms that may destabilize molecules within cells and lead to tissue damage. (http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/food/foodsafety/the-nuclear-accident-in-japan/) History of radiation Japanese radiation generation How radiation influence the agricultural When a nuclear power plant releases radiation, many foods and edible plants can absorb radioactive particles, which can be toxic to humans. Fuel rods that are exposed to the atmosphere may release iodine, which can be carried by the wind and end up on grass and plants. Read more: Nuclear Radiation Effects on Plants | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/info_8195801_nuclear-radiation-effects-plants.html#ixzz2KdNfqMPO Influence area Radiation can transport by cloud and water. ( http://www.socialintensity.org/) Japan radiation map. (Base on the wind and water, then compare with the map which published by japan media) How radiation food harm people Radioactive particles accumulate in the body and continue to...
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...renewable energies, Nuclear energy is the most versatile to compliment the fossil fuels in Malaysia. Globally, Nuclear power plant is used to power electricity in most developed countries such as United States, France, Japan, and Korea but in Malaysia as a developing country is still deciding on wether to deploy a Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) or not. The main problem is that our government does not have a strong national position to deploy Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in our country. This matter will strongly affect energy security for our country where we will be facing crisis to meet the demand of electricity due to shortage of supply. Electricity demand is projected to grow 3% annually well until 2030 (Chong,2012). There are three main perspective that needs to be considered by our country to deploy NPP, and that is social, economical and policy...
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...People have turned to using nuclear power, however, when reactors malfunction, they negatively affect the environment and the human race. Fukushima and Chernobyl are examples of reactors malfunctioning and affecting the world around them. While both were rated a seven out of seven on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES), they had drastically different causes and effects. In 1986, workers conducted a test on the unit four reactor without taking necessary safety precautions, resulting in explosions that almost destroyed it. The reactor was a RBMK-1000 which is a graphite moderated pressure tube type reactor. Its fuel was slightly enriched uranium dioxide (2% U-235). Thirty operators and firemen were killed within three...
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...Nuclear Energy and its importance in context of India Every single atom in the universe carries an unimaginably powerful battery within its heart, called the nucleus. This form of energy, often called Type-1 fuel, is hundreds of thousands, if not million, times more powerful than the conventional Type-0 fuels, which are basically dead plants and animals existing in the form of coal, petroleum, natural gas and other forms of fossil fuel. I. Terminology - Nuclear fission –splitting of atoms to produce energy in the form of heat. Uranium a naturally occurring radioactive metal - only element in which fission(splitting off nucleus) can take place easily, setting off a chain reaction or a self-sustained splitting of atoms. The atoms of Uranium are the largest and the heaviest known on earth so its nucleus is unstable. Besides uranium, plutonium can undergo fission. Fertile material – composed of atoms which do not undergo induced fission themselves but fissile material can be generated from them by irradiation in a nuclear reactor. E.g. U- 238 gives plutonium 239, TH- 232 gives U-233, and U-234 gives U-235. Criticality – When the chain reaction takes place for the first time in a nuclear electricity reactor, it means the reactor has reached its first criticality. Moderator – used to slowdown neutrons surrounding the fuel core of the reactor,e.g.Light water, heavy water (D2O) Pressurised Heavy Water reactor (PWHR) –fuel used is natural uranium. Heavy water is both coolant and...
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...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 the increasing electricity consumption demand. Due to these reasons, now China was actively promoting the development of nuclear energy, with constructing a large number of nuclear power plants and investing a lot of money on nuclear research in order to try to change the current energy structure. Threaten of nuclear safety However, once we talked about nuclear power, the public would be...
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...Nuclear weapons are considered to be the deadliest and inhumane weapons ever created. The International Committee of the Red Cross (2010) viewed nuclear weapons in an explicit way. It posited that “Nuclear weapons are unique in their destructive power, in the unspeakable human suffering they cause, in the impossibility of controlling their effects in space and time, and in the threat they pose to the environment, to the future generation, and indeed to the survival of humanity.” Many other institutions such as the United Nations Organization and the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons have seconded this statement. Collectively, they are trying their best to convince people to support nuclear disarmament. Nuclear weapons have been used twice in warfare, on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. More than 210,000 innocent civilians died, while countless suffered acute injuries. Supposing that a nuclear weapon will never be used again, a tone of uncertainty, there are intolerable effects from production, testing and deployment of nuclear arsenals. In addition to warfare, nuclear power plant disasters pose an equal threat. On Wikipedia (n.d.), one can find a list of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents worldwide. Lists of attacks on nuclear power plant, civilian nuclear...
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...On March 11th 2011 a magnitude 9.0 earthquake known as the Great East Japan Earthquake struck off the east coast of japan. It sparked a level 7 nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, according to the International Nuclear Event scale (INES) it remains one of the most severe accidents in history. The Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission (NAIC) concludes the meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi was preventable, deeming it as a “manmade” disaster. On the other hand, several organizations, including Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), claim the incident was caused by "unprecedented natural disasters" and therefore was inescapable due to the unpredictability of the weather. Throughout this essay will attempt to answer the question: Did Tokyo Electric Power Company take appropriate safety precautions at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, or was the nuclear meltdown preventable? In order to assess whether or not TEPCO was at fault for the accident at Fukushima we must first acknowledge what happened when the Great East Japan Earthquake struck, and therefore discus the...
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...Nuclear tools are strikingly powerful. For each kilogram of petrol, nuclear fission gives about a million times more vitality than chemical fire or high explosive. (Saha, 2004) However, this splitting process has the need of free neutrons that are only present within a working receptacle. If not, then there is only radioactive growth and this radioactivity cannot spread by contamination, like fire or disease. In a severe nuclear accident in a common area, the heat unleashed by this perish can put an end to a reactor. A lot of people who get radiation treatment have skin changes and some weakness. Other side effects depend on the part of your body being cured. Skin changes may include dryness, burning, peeling, or blistering. These changes take place because radiation therapy compensates healthy skin cells in the treatment area. In 2011 about 19,000 people were lost...
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