Nuclear Power
Following the 9.0 magnitude undersea earthquake tsunami that hit J apan on M arch 11 th 2011, wide ranging discussions on safety aspects relating to nuclear power has taken centre stage. The earthquake triggered giant tsunami waves washed away almost anything and everything coming in its way, in some of the places upto 10 km inland. The J apanese N ational P olice A gency has confirmed over 13000 deaths and many more injured or missing. The multiple disasters further caused extensive and severe damage to over 125000 buildings, roads, railways as well as fires in many areas. The worst however was the effect on F ukushima D ai-ichi N uclear P ower P lant (NPP). Though the structure could survive the “strong ground motion” and shut down automatically, failure of ancillary system to cool the reactors (necessary to remove decay heat after the reactor has been shut down, and to maintain spent fuel pools) resulted in multiple explosions creating a pa...