Essays on Fukushima

Obstacle to Sustainable Development

It is proved that in places where people litter, take the environment for granted and where people do not appreciate natural resources, the atmosphere is not at all happy ((Blakely, Haley and Woodward). In 2014, the United Nations on the basis of three indicators such as life expectancy of citizens, availability of education and standard of living (poverty or affluence), calculated the index of human development in 190 countries around the world. It is not necessary to prove that the index of human development greatly depends on the ecology of the environment - in other words, to prove that ...

Business

2016-07-28

Introduction

This paper is devoted to the company Nissan Motor Company Ltd. and its management system. The great attention is paid to the operations management, supply chain, inventory management and other aspects, which can significantly impact on the company’s effectiveness. Nissan is currently demonstrating a steady growth in terms of volume of production and sales, as well as developing its technologies in different fields. Nowadays, the company Nissan produces cars in twenty countries around, which include Japan, USA, England, Spain, India, Brazil, Mexico, Russia and others. Sales are conducted in more than one hundred and sixty countries. Company ...

The Fukushima

1. I cannot be sure, but I want to believe that heroism and stoicism are still present in the society. The Fukushima 50 showed unprecedented selflessness and bravery, and stayed in the most dangerous place in order to save the lives of others. I believe that nuclear plants’ employees in other countries would take risks and stay too. But the main example that comes to my mind is the Chernobyl disaster. Some of the Soviet Union workers stayed, when the Chernobyl blast happened. They helped to clean radioactive remnants of reactor in order to give way to firemen to ...

DD Month YYYY

It is widely believed that nuclear energy continues to grow only because of the industrial lobby from companies and corporations that manufacture equipment for nuclear plants and organizations, as well as government officials, who are associated with the nuclear industry. The first advantage is that using nuclear energy can reduce fossil fuel consumption. But the biggest problem is that despite the safety systems of nuclear power plants the human aspect has always an impact on a nuclear accident and nobody can guarantee that disasters like Chernobyl and Fukushima will not happen again. Nuclear waste is a ...

Nuclear energy is undisputedly a very paramount source of energy in first world countries, Japan included. It involves sophisticated nuclear fission that yields energy. It has been argued that it is not a good source of energy by some internationally known agencies like Forbes. Nuclear power generation in Japan has encountered changes following the tragedy in Fukushima in 2011 for reactor plants being erected so close to the ocean where they are vulnerable to tsunamis. The impacts of the tragedy were felt in the economic as well as political sector. The welfare economics of the state went down because ...

A nuclear plant known as Fukushima is in the process of building an ice wall with the aim of preventing contaminated water from flowing out of the facility into the earth. Yuichi Okamura, who is an architect, insists that rainfall and spaces in the wall will permit water to leak into and out of the facility, and generate up to 50 tons of radioactive water per day. The wall is designed to be 1 mile in length, and contain a pipe that goes 30 meters into the ground, within the facility. The pipes will carry refrigerant at -30° Celsius ...

Understanding of the political system of Japan is critical for understanding the major interests of this country and forecasting its behavior. Since the 1950s until the early 2000s the Liberal Democratic Party remained in power. But in the 21st century, it was temporarily ousted by other political forces. In 2012, it regained power and is ruling party in Japan now. What are the reasons behind the LDP’s domination? I will try to explain it not going deep into history but illustrating the most recent developments in Japanese policy. The result of the Japanese parliamentary elections of 16 December ...

Many nations around the world have been relying on the nuclear power as it is one of the most sustainable sources of energy. However, there are some issues that encompass the use of nuclear fuel due to the waste that it produces. On the other hand, the emerging technological advancements enable nuclear power plants to operate safer against the threat of radioactive wastes. Nuclear power is presumably safe, but there are various claims concerning that nuclear wastes still pose risk against the people and the environment. Despite nuclear power’s large contribution to the nations’ energy supply, the world ...

In early 2011, an earthquake hit the Northeastern part of Japan and tsunami ensued. The tsunami breached a nuclear power plant operated by Tokyo Electric Power Company at Fukushima Daiichi. The damage caused to the plant ignited interest in safety of nuclear power plants. In the United States, the electricity generation industry conducted in depth reviews of the Fukushima disaster in order to fortify its nuclear plants from similar misfortunes. Based on the findings established from the review, nuclear plants have taken measures in the last five years to ramp up safety. To verify the safety of nuclear plants ...

Introduction

Concerns with avoiding the adverse consequences of Global Warming and the effects of Climate Change has increased significantly over the past decades (Deutch et al.). The leading economies such as the United States are still reluctant to adopt comprehensive climate change policies despite pledging to do so. Nor has there been an agreement with the emerging rapidly-growing economies such as India, South Korea, China, Indonesia, and Mexico on the mechanisms to adopt Greenhouse Gas (GHGs) emission constraints (US Energy Information Administration [EIA]). With Global emissions of GHGs projected to continue to increase, there is the added urgency to not ...

The Fukushima Daichi is a technological disaster triggered by natural calamities on March 11th, 2011, when a massive earthquake measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale hit Japan. The earthquake originated from Honshu Island, and it created a tsunami. Following the tremor, reactors one, two and three automatically shut down. Reactors 4, 5 and 6 had been previously shut down for maintenance and repairs. Due to felled power supply lines, the Fukushima Daichi reactor complex was cut off from the electricity grid. As the operating reactors had shut down, they could not generate power for them to cool down, and ...

Cloud data center

The literature review, in this case, focuses on the cloud computing data center, and it does address energy as well as trade-off performance. The server within cloud data center is virtualized in the cloud environment hence the instances of virtualization must be handled with a lot of care to improve machines as well as the host efficiency. Cloud computing is a technology which has the capability to achieve massive data storage, efficient communication process, performance at a higher rate, hosting as well as services on demand to all the cloud consumers. The rate at which social application, as well ...

Introduction

There are various reasons and factors that can impact the tourism and economic sector. The natural disasters can hinder the development, scare foreigners and result in the negative impacts on the travel and tourism in the country. The earthquake and tsunami in the Japan in the year 2011 left many consequences of which many are still visible today. On one side, Japan is a known country prone to the various natural disasters, but on the other, one of the most developed and most prepared for the unfortunate events. Natural disasters can have long lasting effect on the tourism, but ...