Nuclear Power Plant Protests
Nuclear Power Plant Protests
Nuclear Power Plant Protests
An example can be the Nuclear power plant protests can be the protests against the building of Kudankulam power plant,
where more than 1,00,000 protestors gathered to raise their voices of concern.
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Soumil K.
Can nuclear power plant be harmful? Why?
Yes it can,
A major environmental concern related to nuclear power is the creation of RADIOACTIVE WASTES such
as uranium mill tailings, spent (used) reactor fuel, and other radioactive wastes. These materials can remain
radioactive and dangerous to human health for thousands of years.
As radioactive material decays, or breaks down, the energy released into the environment has two ways of
harming a body that is exposed to it, Higley said. It can directly kill cells, or it can cause mutations to DNA. If
those mutations are not repaired, the cell may turn cancerous.
Darsh D.
Why do people protest against the nuclear power projects like the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant?
Extra more information about Nuclear power plants.
Nuclear power plants creates 2 million tons of toxic rare earth type mining wastes per year per reactor, about 75% as much as coal, but far more
toxic. Lazard and others put nuclear power at least 4 times the cost of solar or wind without government support. Nuclear power is begging for
more government welfare and the world’s largest nuclear power companies are bankrupt.
Anti-nuclear critics see nuclear power as a Dangerous, expensive way to boil water to generate electricity. Opponents of nuclear power have raised a number
of related concerns Nuclear accidents: a concern that the core of a nuclear power plant could overheat and melt down, releasing radioactivity.
Globally, more nuclear power reactors have closed than opened in recent years. The application of nuclear technology, as a source of energy and as an
instrument of war, has been controversial. These issues are discussed in nuclear weapons debate, nuclear power debate, and uranium mining debate .
In the United States, nuclear power controls close to 20% of the electricity. Therefore, citizens use nuclear energy daily in their lives. Nuclear
power is the power created from controlled nuclear reactions. The power source is the heat generated by a controlled nuclear fission chain reaction.
The reaction involves uranium or plutonium being hit by a neutron and splitting. Nuclear power is very controversial, especially among
environmentalist.
Daksh K
Why do people protest against nuclear power plants:-
1. People protest against nuclear power plants because of an incident in Fukushima Daiichi in which there
was an nuclear disaster and many people died in that incident.
2. If there is a nuclear disaster there is no time to evacuate the whole place an many people will die and
because the radiation can spread nuclear power plants have been protested.
3. Another reason is that nuclear power plants are very expensive.
Aryan S.
Why do people protest against power plant ?
Ans: People protes Nuclear power plan as they produce radioactive waste which coul har our skin an
brus the bloo cel which coul lea t cancer.
A nuclear power plant is a thermal power station in which the heat source is a nuclear
reactor. As is typical of thermal power stations, heat is used to generate steam that drives
a steam turbine connected to a generator that produces electricity.
5. Nuclear waste
6. Acisdents
7. Energy production
Dhairya.G
What was the first nuclear power plant?
There have been many protests against building a “Nuclear Power Plant”. Why?
1. Expensive
2. Very dangerous
3. Nuclear FUEL IS EXTREMELY DENS
E.g - There were over 1,00,000 people who protested against the Kudankulam power plant,
Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (or Koodankulam NPP or KKNPP) is the largest nuclear power station in India, situated in Koodankulam
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in the Tirunelveli district of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Construction on the plant began on 31 March 2002, but faced several
delays due to opposition from local fishermen.
Suhani B.
★ The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on
August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively, with the consent of the United Kingdom.
★ The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians.
★ The bombings took place : First, of course, was to bring the war with Japan to a speedy end and spare American
lives.Second objective was to demonstrate the new weapon of mass destruction to the Soviet Union.
★ The uranium bomb had an explosive yield equal to 15,000 tonnes of Trinitrotoluene(explosive chemical).
★ It razed and burnt around 70 per cent of all buildings and caused an estimated 140,000 deaths by the end of 1945,
along with increased rates of cancer among the survivors.
National security - if a war happens the nuclear power plant can explode
Cancer risk - people can get cancer from this (the workers also have higher
than usual radiation levels
Poor countries - poor countries will not have the money to make the nuclear
power plants
Dhruv.T
There have been many protests for the kundalam power plant protest. The
protest was for the 2,000 megawatt power plant. The protest was lead by s.p.
Udaykumar. When the announcement happened for the power plant, the first
protesters were the residents. They protested because of the water diversion
in the 1990’s. The people in kundalam were also worried about the hot water
discharged in the sea will affect the marine life.
Nevan.S
Nuclear energy is really useful but there are some side effects which come with it.
For example when the power plant releases some kind of air and humans breathe it they would have symptoms like
vomiting, hair loss, skin burns and possibly death!
E.g - The Hiroshima nagasaki attack. There were lots of people who got affected with it and some even died! Still
these years whenever a child is born there they get affected with it and have some of the symptoms which I wrote
above. Another thing is that the power plants cost a lot of money to make.
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