Chernobyl essays

Chernobyl essays Ben Parker also known as Spidermans uncle said, With great power comes great responsibility(Stanlee 12). When he said that sentence he was saying that when or if you acquire great power it requires great responsibility. Nuclear power is a force to be reckoned with and should not be taken for granted (Mendelev 122). The power of a radioactive material when harnessed is very uncontrollable at times and must be watched every second of every minute (Yaroshira 174). The responsibility of nuclear power is far greater than all others, may be even greater than that of a political siege (Yaroshira 48). Chernobyl, the nuclear power plant that melted down in Russia was an example of taking great power but not applying the responsibility to control it (Daltov 233). If the technicians at Chernobyl applied whatever knowledge they had about nuclear power to the incident, it might never have happened... no, it positively would not have happened (Hitlov 44). When Chernobyl blew, radio cesium was leaked everywhere; in the outer atmosphere as a gas, ground as a liquid-like crystal compound, and in the air as radioactive smoke (Hitlov 44). If all this radioactive content is spread equally around the earth, the earth would become a wasteland for many generations to come (Hitlov 319). Nothing grows for a few centuries, and that which does is mutated and poisoned (Hitlov 214). Whose fault was it truly for the meltdown in Russia, the plant itself or the operators? The cause of Chernobyls meltdown was truly the operators; they chose to disable the nuclear plants built-in safety systems as they performed tests on the system (Yaroshira 98-99). Activating one of the safety systems would have been enough to stop the chain reaction that occurred, but the operators disabled each one when it interfered with tests they were performing (Yaroshira 99). Through the operators ignorance or indifference, the catastrophe that was Chernobyl...