Nuclear Aftershocks

Nuclear Aftershocks
The documentary reflects on the Japan’s Fukushima nuclear meltdown. It shows an image of the horrible damage done by the accident triggered off by a tsunami, futile efforts to control the nuclear plant and it paints the plants as a life-threatening invention. It uses a footage to describe how the events occurred.
Notably, in the documentary, there are issues raised . One of them is the question fired by O’Brien when at a third of the documentary (18.20). The question is how much TEPCO knew about the radiation leaking from the Fukushima plant and when they it dawned on them. To prop up this question is the claims by TEPCO and plant engineers that even before the tsunami hit the plant, the radiation alarms were already warning. The second issue is raised when at halfway of the documentary (running 25.22). O’Brien states the proposition of a new 20 mili-Sieverts evacuee standard by the Japanese authorities. O’Brien puts out of the context the protest by the public considering that school-age children and their habits, such as playing ways, contrast with those of the grown ups and therefore are over five times riskier than grown ups.
However, though the Fukushima nuclear accident forms the basis of the documentary, the exclusive use of the term “Fukushima nuclear accident” ends there. To put it concisely, the Fukushima nuclear plant accident is a background of the very many such ticking time-bombs.

The documentary takes one to U.S and Europe where such nuclear plants operate. Thus, the documentary quips the question, is there another Fukushima-like nuclear accident in the making? As the commentator puts it, Japan is renown for its technology and engineering expertise, yet, it wasn’t at all prepared for an event of the magnitude that befall it. As the documentary points out geographically, Japan has had a history of such natural disasters as Tsunami, yet, the engineers overlooked them; the aforementioned fact, coupled with a statement by Hidekatsu Yoshii, a former Japan’s nuclear engineer, of Japan’s engineers delusion of the nuclear safety myth begs another question, to what extent is the world’s nuclear power industry safe?
Closer to home, the documentary is directed unto the U.S if there is a possibility of any of its 104 nuclear reactors going the way of the Fukushima plant accident. The documentary is a reminder of America’s over forty nuclear plant reactors that don’t comply with the U.S federal standards of fire protection. In Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster league, it also reminds of the nuclear power industry of India’s Point Nuclear Plant that just like Fukushima plant is almost forty years old.
The documentary serves an eye opener of the gargantuan danger that lurks behind the nuclear plants and it reveals that despite the fact that they are seen as import in satisfying the industrial power, there are time-bombs. It also shows the lax safety standards of the nuclear power industry and that that even those technologically and innovative nations in the nuclear power industry, they are just susceptible as well (Jon, 2012). The documentary drives the logic home, to satisfy industrial power, Research and Development is needed in alternative sources otherwise we have sealed our fate by investing our hopes in the nuclear power industry as a source of power.

Reference
Palfreman, J. (Director and Producer). (2012). FRONTLINE: Nuclear Aftershocks [Documentary]. U.S :PBS


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