Safety in the Workplace

Safety Inside Nuclear Plants

Rodney Phillips

January 3, 2014

Safety Inside Nuclear Plant

Safety is taken very serious by employees working in nuclear power plants. I

am going to start with the Fukushima nuclear plant accident. This Tsunami hit the

core of the power plant’s electrical power. When the water started flooding the

background leaving the plant with no way to cool the nuclear fuel rods. On March

11, 2011, Japan was struck by a 9.0 earthquake, tsunami, and disaster that

created a nuclear meltdown as three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi power

plant facility was crippled when the coding system went out. The disaster has

killed at least 1600 people. The rules of cleaning this disaster up went out the

window. The Japanese governor hired homeless men living around the

Sendi Station to clean up the radioactive area around the plant not caring about

their health. The workers were paid minimum wage. There were 733 companies

performing work for the ministry of environment. The Fukushima accident brought

action to the nuclear plant world. Different plants paid attention to what had

happened and they started checking their own plants for a disaster like this one

that imposed contamination on water while innocent people lived in the

environment.

Japan has had knowledge in the past that it was a concern about the nuclear

plant being able to withstand seismic activity. However, nothing was done to bulk

up around the plants surrounding the water.

“The disaster at Fukushima Dai-ichi released 15,000 terabecquerels of highly

radioactive cesium 137 along with radioactive material(Eccleston,2012).” I would

hope after this accident that every nuclear plant around the world would be more

aware of safety concerns and take the necessary preventive measures to avoid an

accident from occurring.

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