Bad Sides of Nuclear Power

   With the increasing demand of electricity, more and more nuclear power stations have been build around the world.

   Compared with traditional ways of how we generate power, nuclear power is much cleaner, but it's also more dangerous. For example, five years ago in Fukushima, Japan, the tsunami took the nuclear power station down and made the nuclear material leak into the ocean. It costs a very serious damage to the local environment.

   I want to talk about the nuclear leak's influence to the human body first. According to atomicarchive website, the radiation can affect human for many ways. Such as losing of hair quickly, radiation sickness which may last up to 10 years and may increase long-term risk for leukemia and lymphoma, and it may also cause heart failure and immediate death. 

   The second part is about the influence to the animals lives around the nuclear station. There are so may reports about how bad the radiation affect the local environment and made the animals mutation and the change of numbers. For example, some researchers compared monkeys from two regions of Japan, contaminated land in Fukushima and a place 400km north of Fukushima. Fukushima monkeys apparently had low white and red blood cell counts according to beyond unclear website. 

   At last, I want to talk about the plans and environment after radiation material released by accident. There are many pictures you can found online about the harmful effects on plants living within 20 to 30 kilometers of the Chernobyl power station. These genetic effects also called mutation. some of these mutation plants even been changed to a new kind of plants. which is a very terrible thing. plants evolve to fit the environment, but we don't want to see they evolve to fit the radiation.

   Overall the nuclear power is very dangerous if we don't operate it in a right way or make any mistake. And that would cause so many damages which are very hard to fix,. Like Chernobyl, you may can go to the center of it until the next century after next century.  

                                              The picture is the light in my apartment. We need to turn off the lights and save power for protecting the environment. 

 

The picture is the areas that been affect by the Fukushima nuclear power leaks. We can see this is really big. It's very dangerous of the nuclear power leak.