Introduction
Nuclear waste continues to happen everyday in the world. Despite the efforts of the World Health Organization to stop the problem. Nuclear waste is a major problem in the world. It can affect anything and everything around it. The effects can be destruction of entire towns, cause illness and even death in people and animals(Rich).
Problem
Radioactive waste is a major problem in Japan because over thirty five million people were affected by the nuclear meltdown in Fukushima Daiichi. Six years after the largest nuclear disaster in a quarter-century, Japanese officials have still not solved a basic problem. What to do with an ever-growing pile of radioactive waste. Each form of waste at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, where three reactors melted down after an earthquake and a tsunami on March 11, 2011, presents its own challenges (Rich).
Solutions
One possible solution is to take out everything that’s radioactive such the buildings, water, soil, plants and animals. By removing the radioactive materials you can now start to clean up the affected area and rebuild if needed. When they rebuild the nuclear power plant with better and safer technology so the meltdown doesn’t happen again. With the newer technology the plant has now we can rebuild it better and safer now (Energy Informative).
Feasibility
This will be implemented by the government of Japan and the World Health Organization by them funding the clean up and the rebuild of the power plant. They will start working in and around the plaint by removing everything that is radioactive and hauling it off to a secure dumping site. With the radioactive waste hauled off now the rebuild can begin.
The government and the world Health Organization will start rebuilding the power plant with the help of the power plant workers and many other people. Once finished they can start going through the plaint and doing safety checks on everything. Then soon they can reopen the power plant and start working again with a safer environment (Energy Informative).
Rebuttal
There are other solutions for this problem, but they won’t work. One of the solutions is rebuilding the power plant the same by not fixing anything or upgrading anything. The reason that it wont work is that if you don’t fix the melt downs is just going to keep happening over and over again. This is why we need to upgrade are power plants to keep the safety of the plant and worker (Energy Informative).
Conclusion
With nuclear waste being such a problem in today’s world. It can affect anything and everything around it. “Every dollar spent on nuclear is one less dollar spent on clean renewable energy and one more dollar spent on making the world a comparatively dirtier and a more dangerous place, because nuclear power and nuclear weapons go hand in hand” (jacobson).
Work Cited
- Rich, Motoko. “Struggling With Japan’s Nuclear Waste, Six Years After Disaster.” The New York Times, March 11, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/11/world/asia/struggling-with-japans-nu-clear-waste-six-years-after-disaster.html. Accessed February 7, 2019
- “Nuclear energy pros and cons.” Energy Informative, May 16, 2018, http://energyinformative.org/nuclear-energy-pros-and-cons/ Accessed February 6, 2019.
- Mark Z Jacobson. “Nuclear Quotes.” 2019. https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/mark_z_jacobson Accessd February 11, 2019.
