Business, Thought, and Management Articles --- Nuclear Power --- Safety Design and Quality Management
Fission energy is explosively large, nuclear reaction is dangerous accompanied by radioactivity. So, variety of safety design shall be applied to nuclear power so that any accidents or failures shall never occur.
Fission energy is explosively large, nuclear reaction is dangerous accompanied by radioactivity. So, variety of safety design shall be applied to nuclear power so that any accidents or failures shall never occur.
Nuclear power generation is an important project related to the national management. On designing, constructing and operating a nuclear power plant, the "safety" and "quality" is the most important things that shall not be missed absolutely.
From the initial stage that nuclear power is introduced, various studies and discussions about its safety are carried out by experts, and double and triple safety design is made for the power plant construction.
Design drawings are approved after appropriate verification and audit. The quality checks are to be implemented many times.
However, if you look at the system of nuclear power, you would find a variety of issues related to safety and quality.
It takes a huge amount of cost, it can not go back once the project begins: Construction of nuclear power plant is a huge project. Huge amount of money will be used from a land survey, outreach to local government, encouraging the residents, and acquisition of land after the candidate sites is determined.
The costly project can not turn back easily once it begins.
In addition, vested-interest structure is made due to huge amounts of money, the problems can be hidden easier.
Thoroughness of the "safety myth" makes easier to miss the problems: For nuclear power plant construction, explanation for local residents will be preoccupied with safety emphasis of nuclear power. Thoroughness of the so-called "safety myth" has become the basis for the nuclear power plant attraction.
By disseminating myth thoroughly, people become not nervous about the risks. Then eyes of the monitoring will loose.
Since a lot of people believe the safety myth, defect will be overlooked easier.
Plant Workers Issues: Field work of the nuclear power plant contains the exposure.　The more you work diligently, the more you will be exposed. In order not to receive the health damage a thorough management of the exposure is required.
And, if you exceed a certain amount of exposure, you should not work any more.
When you manage exposure thoroughly, you have to replace workers often. Skilled workers will not be increased under such situation.
There are various indications such as temporary workers problems about the actual working environment of nuclear power plant workers, it leaves a lot of issues for safety and health of power plant workers.
For the safety and quality of nuclear power, other various issues have been pointed out.
To make the nuclear power to be secure, it is required to clear all these problems, and ensure that mistakes shall never be in the safety and quality.
Fission Energy
Nuclear power is basically the power generated by the nuclear reaction. Nuclear reaction has mainly nuclear fission and nuclear fusion. Nuclear power generation that is operating currently in commercial takes advantage of the fission energy of uranium-plutonium.
Atmic Reactor
Atomic reactor is the equipment to make continuously stable nuclear reaction. Fission will generate a large amount of radioactive substance with explosive energy. Nuclear power generation is to generate electricity using the heat energy by controlling the nuclear reaction in the reactor.
Power Generating Plant
Power generation plant will generate the power by the generator. In order to move the generator, you need the power. In the case of nuclear power plant, it creates the steam that was heated by the nuclear reaction energy, thereby turns the turbine.
Radioactive Waste
When operating nuclear power plant, radioactive waste will be made. Radioactive waste is waste that contains radioactive substances. Processing of radioactive waste has concerns of its risk and the impact to the environment, it has become a major issue of nuclear power.
Workers and Their Health
Those who supports the operation of nuclear power plant are the workers who work there. Workers sometimes have to work side-by-side with danger at high radiation area. And their health management is a big issue.
Safety Design and Quality Management
Fission energy is explosively large, nuclear reaction is dangerous accompanied by radioactivity. So, variety of safety design shall be applied to nuclear power so that any accidents or failures shall never occur.
Correspondence in Case of Accident
If the accident occurs in a nuclear power plant, it will have a significant impact on a wide range of people. Depending on the correspondence in case of accident, it can harm many people's lives and health, cause pollution in wide area and ocean, and will be criticized from the international community.
Decommissioning of Nuclear Power Plant
The nuclear power plant will be gradually aging by continuous long-term operation. Outdated nuclear power plants will have to stop the operation, and must be decommissioned. The nuclear power will also have a big issue for this "decommissioning".
The Future of Nuclear Power
How the future of nuclear power will be that have variety of issues? How the nuclear power should be? Let's think about he future of nuclear power here.
Should the Nuclear Power Be Eliminated?
There are opinions that we should be without nuclear power. That says, we should abolish the nuclear power plants because nuclear power is dangerous, has concerns like accidents and radioactive waste, and it is not promising as an energy source.
Future of Energy Policy
How our energy policy will be in future? What should we consider the use of energy from now? Let's think about the future of energy policy here.
