Nuclear accidents: prevention and survival Measures
原子 力 事故: 予防 と 生存 対策
Last day March 11, 2011 in Japan had an earthquake of 9.0 magnitude on the Richter scale followed of a terrible tsunami and cause thousands of deaths and disappearances and to produce enormous disaster, damaged several nuclear plants in the city of Fukushima, repeated radioactive leaks put on alert throughout the international community with a serious risk of contamination.
Hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated in the area for fear of the consequences of this important nuclear threat.
Members of the emergency services (engineers, technicians and operators of power plants, fire, etc) are heroically risking his life and health, subjected to high doses of radiation to cool the reactor and prevent an explosion or merger atomic nuclei
( see articles and videos about the happenings in links at the bottom )
This grave situation brings us back to mind the terrifying consequences of past episodes - with thousands dead, injured and sick - important explosions and atomic radiation: brought about during the World War II, as the bombing of Nagasaki Hidrosima and in 1945, and other accidents, like the central Chernobyl (Ukraine) in 1989.
addition to these events to keep in mind the lists civilian and military accidents, leaking radiation, that have occurred to date and likely will continue in the coming years given the international proliferation of atomic elements ( arms arsenals, new plants, warehouses and transportation of materials or waste, etc )
(see links at the bottom )
currently exist in the world about 440 nuclear power plants but the number is growing each year and dozens more are built. The
countries with the largest number of such facilities are the United States (104), France (59), Japan (56), Russia (31) South Korea (20), United Kingdom (19), Canada (18), Germany (17), India (17) and Ukraine (15)
For supporters of nuclear energy, utility and cost of these plants are largely consistent production and performance, not subject to variations weather (as in renewables) and its not CO2 pollution ( own fossil fuels like coal and oil) .
However, another large part of the world population, are a constant threat and serious accidents, because - despite all the security measures taken - there are always unforeseeable contingencies ( human error , undetectable failures, terrorist attacks and in case of war, natural factors such as earthquakes and tsunamis, etc ) who advocate a certain probability that such accidents will happen sooner or later .
also concerned about the growing accumulation of waste lasting radioactive for thousands of years.
The debate on nuclear itself or nuclear , led by environmental organizations, is classic and permanent, but growing demands for electricity and declining oil and gas reserves in the near future , decant the balance in favor of continuity and expansion of these plants for several years .
It would therefore be necessary to adopt and improve preventive measures and survival to mitigate the risks and effects of potential accidents with radioactive leaks , as set out below
SAFEGUARDS
general or collective to be taken by governments and also for companies and managers :
- should be a monitoring and control on nuclear power plants by the United Nations, with criteria as the construction, organization, operation, safety, etc
- States, before building nuclear Centrl should inform and consult the people through a referendum for the decision was taken
majority - Study of the conditions of the region or place siting of future facilities (topography, seismicity, and potential tsunamis, storms, proximity of volcanoes, etc )
- Control and supervision of construction and safety projects ( buildings earthquake-resistant, watertight enclosures reactor aislamieto and cores, cooling systems, supplemental power generators, etc )
- The central should be located in sparsely populated areas and provided more than 100 km of any city, port, airport and industrial center of population or
- Services technical maintenance and security and alert permanent and reinforced to prevent or neutralize not only accidents and damage, but also terrorist attacks ( building battleships against possible external attacks, equipment failures or trained to fight fires, barriers, gates or enclosures sealed insulation from hazardous areas or contaminants, armed guards, vehicles and equipment for radiation protection, protective suits, masks, breathing apparatus, etc)
- Alerting the population promptly of any fault or event involving a risk of radioactive leaks
of an individual or personal
- Participate in manifestations of internent forums, surveys, etc., for or against nuclear energy
- At election time, vote only to political parties or groups who choose existence or not nuclear , according to the criteria every citizen, not allowing , as now, that governments and multinational decide, regardless of the views of the people
- Reside , if possible, over 50 km of any nuclear installation or deposit
- If for work or other nature is to travel or remain in areas near nuclear plants carry detection devices environmental radioactivity
SURVIVAL MEASURES THE EVENT OF A NUCLEAR ACCIDENT
general or collective:
- In addition to trying to repair the fault by technical teams, firemen, etc, report, truthful and timely manner, what is happening, proceeding immediately to the evacuation of inhabitants closer to central and / or adopting measures isolation of those who remain within a radius of at least 30 km ( stay in the houses, with doors and windows closed, use of Protective suits and masks to those who have to work or travel on the outside, etc )
- display at all times radioactivity levels in both central and near other areas of the country, the people recommending the most appropriate actions and sending messages to moderate panic and psychosis
- Healthcare urgent potential victims and the distribution copy of drugs (potassium iodide ) to lessen the effects of radiation ( that often affect in principle to the thyroid gland)
- Helps people in the food sector by providing free food and water radioactive contamination
individual or personal-type :
- Permancer qa news alert authorities governmental and health on the development of leak or accident and take immediate recommendations (isolation, evacuation, avoidance of places, contaminated food or water, etc )
- Case aggravate or extend the risk nuclear deal, if possible, of a safe distance away ( over 200 km) and even leave the country or region affected . This retreat is
especially recommended for children and pregnant women are more vulnerable to radioactivity
- should learn and control the level of contamination of air, water and food, to deduce the number siervets or millisieverts likely - units that measure the dose of radioactivity - that can be subjected.
( see scales and effects on links at the bottom )
EXCEED THE ENVIRONMENTAL HARASSMENT: RENEWABLE ENERGY SHOULD REPLACE THE PRODUCED BY NUCLEAR AND FOSSIL FUELS
Nuclear power is necessary or not today, is a serious humanitarian threat , the effects and health consequences of radioactive releases beyond the borders ( the Chernobyl disaster spread across most of Europe) polluting for months, even years, not only individuals but also to land, rivers, seas, animals and crops , also produce an increase in diseases serious ( burns, leukemia, cancer, fetal deformities, etc ) and indexes mortality of those affected.
The confluence of the harmful effects of radiological contamination caused with meanwhile fossil fuels ( CO2, global warming, respiratory diseases, noise, etc) are leading humanity - in the interests the worship of the goddess energy - a situation that enslaving environmental harassment violates our freedom and our health , and not enough to escape the big cities polluted by exhaust from cars and pollution in many industrial activities because now, also in the field, we can reach other pollution - The radiation - which though invisible, is no less dangerous. The only
raccional solution to this problem, until they are other less harmful forms of energy - maybe the fusion , now in testing - is to increase and enhance called clean or renewable energies - solar , wind, hydro, tidal, geothermal, biocombustión, use of hydrogen, etc. - and encourage savings by vehicles and equipment designed to save and use these clean energy.
And if today the percentage of renewable is already 20 percent in all energy sources that have , why not rose to 40, 60 or one hundred percent ?
This would supply the percentage of nuclear , now located at a 30 percent of this set of energy sources and could prevent future growth, allowing its gradual dismantling . This
turn away this plague of filth and death (more radioactivity fossil fuels) that threatens us and contribute to higher rates of environmental purity ( air, water, food, etc ), health, safety and progress .
Until then, we will, as the famous tango "Cambalache" ... "sunk in a fuzz - and in the same mud - all manoseaos" ... ----------------------------------------------
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SOLIDARITY AND LUCK JAPANESE FRIENDS!
連帯 運 が よけれ ば 日本 の 友達!
SOLIDARITY AND LUCK, JAPANESE FRIENDS!
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Videos, Images and reports on the earthquake, tsunami and of nuclear accidents in Japan (March 2011) - www.rtve.es / news
日本 の 原子力 事故 - Video-reports about the nuclear accident (in Japanese) - www. youtube.com
Radioactivity - es.wikipedia.org
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(INES ) - es.wikipedia.org
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Chernobyl Accident - es.wikipedia.org
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - es.wikipedia.org
nuclear war - es.wikipedia.org
Effects of Nuclear Weapons - es.wikipedia.org
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Disputes over nuclear power - es.wikipedia.org
antinuclear movement - es.wikipedia.org
Abandonment of nuclear energy - es.wikipedia.org
Renewable 100-100 - www.greenpeace.org
measures against air pollution - primatecuasisapiens.blogspot
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