In March 2011, Fukushima, Japan, the nation was hit by an 8.9 magnitude earthquake followed by a devastating tsunami. Many lives were lost that day and buildings collapsed everywhere. It was a painful sight to see and for the Japanese people it was a sad and worrying time. The Japanese people were not afraid of earthquake and tsunami as they learn from an early age to deal with those disasters as it was a normal occurrence for a land located on the "Ring of Fire", a vast active volcanic and tectonic zone surrounding the north and the South America, Asia, and island arcs in Southeast Asia (“Ring of Fire”). What worried them was the news coming from the government. The news that the Fukushima Daiichi plant was hit by the earthquake and tsunami caused waste to spread across the sea. For some Japanese, it was history again. After that accident, the Japanese people asked the government to shut down all nuclear reactors in the country and the government accepted the people's voice by decommissioning all 48 reactors (Gatehouse). However, that accident has another effect that could negatively impact nuclear science. Should we still use nuclear power plants to generate energy for our world? There are many views on this topic, however, with the evidence I have collected and the reaction of other countries, nuclear power plants cause more harm than good to the human population. Compared to other sciences, nuclear science is still generally young and new, in fact, scientists only began to delve into nuclear physics during the World War II era ("Atomic Physics"). Nuclear energy can come from two sources, nuclear fission, which is the splitting of atoms, and nuclear fusion which is the unity… middle of paper… dropped the first atomic bomb on humans destroying their lives. before the first nuclear power plant, created 15 years later to provide electricity to the public. Despite being redeemed by the efficiency of the nuclear power plant, nuclear science was once again criticized, when in 1986, in Chernobyl, Ukraine, an explosion occurred in the nuclear power plant which is one of the most devastating accidents ever to happen in history human. There haven't been many accidents since Chernobyl, but the damage it caused still affects the land, which is currently still inhospitable. No one in this world can deny that modern nuclear physics is an achievement that demonstrates how capable humans can be, but with the risk and danger it brings, it is better to leave nuclear science and continue to discover other avenues to safety. of human beings.
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