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Groar.

On 11 March 2011, a nuclear power plant in Japan named Fukushima Daiichi experiences a series of ongoing equipment failures and releases of radioactive materials following the earthquake and tsunami recently happened in Japan.The reactor plant, the one which contains the highly radioactive particles, released the dangerous particles to the air after a hydrogen explosion.

The Fukushima disaster is seen as the second worst nuclear disaster after the Chernobyl tragedy. The reasons why many countries still use nuclear energy is because it is seen as the new hope to solve the fossil fuel depletion problem. Fossil fuel, the main fuel source we still rely on, is depleting in an alarming manner and countries believe that there is no other power source as promising as nuclear power.

However so, we believe that the risks it poses outweigh the benefits thus we will no longer use nuclear energy,as power nor as weapon. This would mean that the United Nation should not tolerate the mere presence of nuclear facility in member countries as well as gives strong warning towards nations that still possess this facilities as well as on the course of developing them, be it for power source as well as weapon.

We agree that the depletion of fuel source is important, but protecting the society at all cost is even more important. Finding the right subtitute might not be fast and become an extended struggle, however putting the society at such a tremendous risk is not a wise decision. Though other renewable power source are not very reliable at the moment, it is still better to spend more time and energy developing it rather than using nuclear power which is still not fully controllable and bears too many risks. Governments need to protect their society to the extent of eliminating possible immense dangers. No maatter how promising, if it bears a risk as extensive as annihilating a great deal of human lives as well as leaving behind non-removable side effects, the governments need to stop using the nuclear energy.

 Even though nuclear power is seen as the only potential subtitute for fossil fuel, the risk of explosion is always present and once the explosion occurs, the damages are fatally dangerous, irreversible and will last for decades.

There are three major effects of a nuclear explosion: searing heat, overpressure from the blast, and radiation. The intensity of the effects depends on the yield of the weapon and the distance from the blast.

The impacts of the radiation and explosion are fatally dangerous:

Nuclear plant explosion kills people in a number of ways:

a.     Instantly killing people in vicinity due to the gruesome fire to as far as  hundreds of kilometre from the occurence of explosion due to the saturation of radioactivity that gets into the human body. When the Chernobyl disaster occured, the whole Europe was affected.

b.     Radiation poisoning is damaging to organ and other tissues caused by excessive exposure to ionizing radiation. Radiation exposure can increase the probability of developing several diseases, mainly cancer, tumours, and genetic damage. It is greatly possible that a single meltdown in a nuclear plant will cause these damages to millions of people at once through transmission by air.

Moreover, radio active poison prevention is not possible. There is no current method available to adequately prevent exposure to radiation from being absorbed in the human body. Supplements such as kelp and potassium iodide do have a preventative effect on the thyroid, but they don’t prevent exposure to other body organs and tissues. They cannot prevent radioactive iodine from entering the body.

The radioactive waste poses the same health risk. It is costly and hard to degrade as well as difficult to be transported away. If it contaminates the water and soil, the whole food chain will be contaminated as well. Contamination causes people to consume contaminated food from the water and the earth. Long term consumption creates a build-up of radioactivity in the body which means in a long term basis having a nuclear power is dangerous to the people in the society.

They are also irreversible and long lasting:

Once a nuclear plant explodes, the resulting damages are reversible to society. Firstly, when the radioactive particles escape the reactor core and are in contact with the surrounding environment, they will stay in the soil ground, water and any physical presence within the plant’s proximity. Even years after the Chernobyl incident the surrounding environment is still detected with high contamination of radioactivity.

These fatally dangerous, irreversible and long-lasting massive destruction will always be the greatest risk when a single nuclear powerplant is built, leave alone many all over the world. Once exploded, the impacts kill and stay. This should not happen and the nuclear power’s existence needs to be erased.

This letter is for you.

Hey D
I haven't been talking to you for almost a year. I can still remember clearly the last conversation we had. It was in the evening, and I told you that time that I am going to stay by your side and would never looked the other ways like I used to be. You were glad that time, and I thought that everything was gonna be okay. Yet right the day after that conversation occurred, I knew this person who, I thought, was far more interesting than you. I once told you that I would be back after I know that person better. I even promised you that I wouldn't leave you too long.

Yet that person wasn't the first one. I knew another one, then one after another, then I was even in love with them, forgetting that once my heart in fact belonged to you. I was so into them, I talked to them much more than I do to you. You were only, well, silent. You didn't say anything most of the time. Initially I told you to wait a bit more. When I was too happy with them, I told you that you shouldn't make me feel guilty. That sad face you showed me gave me a lot of sleepless nights. I too was confused. Why would I do such thing? Weren't you supposed to be the most important part of me? I once told you I love you.