The Harm In Nuclear Power According to Christodouleas, John P., et all in “Short-Term and Long-Term Health Risks of Nuclear-Power-Plant Accidents” from The New England Journal of Medicine, nuclear power plant accidents have long-term and short-term effects when it comes to health risks. Some may blame the way the nuclear plants are built, some may not. That really isn’t the issue with the negative effects. “...steel-reinforced concrete containment structure that is designed to contain the radioactive material indefinitely”( Christodouleas). Human radiation exposure is a result of reactor accidents. A person whom is exposed to radiation to the body can spread it to their caregivers. It’s characterized in only three ways: internal, external contamination, …show more content…
One, high-energy gamma radiation. High- energy gamma can penetrate deeply into the body, only plant workers and emergency personnel, who were involved with aftermath, had substantial total or partial exposure. Second, the external contamination is the occurrence of the fission product that settles on humans, therefore exposing the skin, or internal organs. Third, internal contamination, this occurs when the fission products are ingested, or also inhaled. It can also be enter through an open wound on a body.Nuclear power may seem non-harmful, but it’s costing us a meltdown every decade. Causing more people, animals, and plants to suffer. Catastrophic risk, if potential containment fails, which nuclear reactors can be brought about by overheated fuels melting and also releasing large quantities of the fission products into the environment. The potential risk wipe out the benefits, most long-lived radioactive waste, including spent nuclear fuel, must be contained and keep away from the environment for a long period of time. …show more content…
John McNeill has stated that “strange careers of nuclear power” has been proven to be both unpopular and uneconomical. A promise was made for 1950s, that the nuclear power would make energy cheap, ignoring the costs of both investment and production. Nuclear reactor disasters and the political “metaphysics of radioactive waste storage” have already yielded the very real social and environmental consequences. The environmental history offers a valuable critique of prophetic sense. Nuclear waste and parts of the Chernobyl’s fallout the waste and parts will be lethal for 24,000 years. Being the most lasting insignia of the 20th century and the longest lien on the future, that any generation of humanity has not yet imposed. Peter Sloterdijk warned us of with regard to climate change and that applies equally to the non-military use of nuclear energy as