Japan power crisis
As we are breathing, the world is changing every second. Who would have known that nowaday people can travel from other side of the world in only few hours. Technology helps us a lot in many ways such as car,airplane,electrical appliances. Most of our household things use electricity to make it works. Where we get the electricity from ? The answer is power plant. Coal and oil are the main rew materials to make an electricity. In Japan the island country that import most of raw materials from outside countries choose Nuclear power to be the alternative way. One-third of electricity in Japan use this power. Last year reactors were damaged in tsunami and earthquake.
Acoording to "Japan's Tokyo Electric Power reports full-year loss" TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company) The loss of money was 781bn yen ($9.7bn; £6bn).(¶2) Also Japan government has measure to provide 1tn yen to the utility and take a controlling stake. "No nuclear" Due to that tragedy, japan goverment has a policy to shut down all nuclear power plant in Japan. The result is an extremely increasing cost of fossil fuel to import. Also TEPC raised the electricity rate for household in July about 10 percent.
In my opinion the problem can cause anywhere and anytime, you should prepare yourself all the time. In Japan, the country that was called to be the most safety for protecting tsunami. The reactor that blew up was set to endure the earthquke but doesn't enough to protect it with tsunami that come at the same time. When it's come no one was prepared so it caused a heavy damaged to Japan both economic and social, but japan recover very fast because of the unity of japanese helps this country to pass this crisis. I cannot imagine this crisis if it happen to Thailand. Only the flood last year that cause many problems until nowaday, the government cannont solve it. I hope someday Thai government could be hard-working more than now.
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I'm not sure whether you think the Japanese decision to shut down all of its nuclear plants is a good or bad one. Which is it?
ReplyDeleteI agree with Peter. Is it better to respond to the decision of Japan government too? And I admit that I'm a kind of little confuse with the news summary. I agree with your respond in the last part that Thai government should be hard-working more than now, but I think there are other factors which make Japan recover so quickly. First, the size of the country, Japan is much smaller than Thailand then I think it is easier to control and improve the situation. Second, I think it is quality of staff. Japanese are known for their diligent in working. So, I think they help together to redevelop their country.
DeletePam is right.
DeleteIt was the summary that made me think that Fair disagrees with the decision, but the summary isn't his ideas, it's his source's ideas, and it wasn't really clear in his own response that Fair does disagree with the decision to shut down the plants.
I think it's sensible to reassess their safety, but probably a bad idea to shut all of the nuclear reactors down at the same time, thereby adding a large economic burden to the entire country, as Fair's summary does clearly state.
As far as I know, Japan is a country which was suffering the damage of nuclear for decades years since the first atomic bomb in Hiroshima and second in Nagasaki during the World War 2 ,and in last year reactors were damaged in tsunami and earthquake, they are facing the horrible nightmare once again. I think this time Japan decided to shut down its nuclear plants because they totally realized and understood how the serious consequences the nuclear will last. Most Japaneses have common agreement that is ENOUGH!! NO MORE NUCLEAR!!! Hence, I think it is good for JP and I also believe Japan, such a creative abundance country certainly can research and develop a better way to make an electricity instead of nuclear power.
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