Pandora’s Promise-Main Ideas-

Pandora’s Promise starts off with a two speakers. They are both trying to appeal to our president, Obama, in the attempt of trying to send him a message about stopping the use of nuclear plants.

Mostly of the journalists and anti nuclear activists were against nuclear powers. Some of them were became pro nuclear power because of others that were convinced that what they thought, nuclear power being bad wasn’t that bad after all.

In the 1950’s there were two kinds of nuclear reactors. The Brita Reactor, which breads plutonium and recycles over and over again. The Light Water Reactor is much more simple, but produces more waste, and it was chosen by Admiral Rickover to be the reactor for the submarine. But with Rickover’s influence, the light water reactor became the principal reactor all over the world.

What scientists considered to be real long-range future for nuclear power, was, the Brita reactor.

President Eisenhower decided to share the benefits of nuclear energy with other countries, it was called Adam’s four piece.

The first commercial nuclear power plant was built in Shipping port Pennsylvania in 1956. They wanted it there because there was already a lot of pollution, so the citizens saw it as it is, another pollutant added to the city. It was a modified version of a submarine reactor.  The first power reactors were really small.

China Syndrome came out. The idea behind the China Syndrome is that nuclear power plant would melt down and would brow a whole all the way to China-à Cancer.

The countries with the most quality of life are the ones that consume the most electricity, for example New York, Japan, China etc. Even the countries that couldn’t afford having electricity, now they can afford it, so it makes our world more dangerous.

Cole is the fastest growing source of energy. As a result of this, is the most usable source of energy that China and some other countries use. Cole is considered to be one of the worst use of energy and the most dangerous, and as a result millions of people die yearly. Nuclear, as its stated in the movie, is the second safest after wind, even safer than the wind.  Apparently, if you eat bananas you tend to be more exposed to fossil fuels than when you drink a good amount of water.

The explosion of the reactor at Chernobyl had a lot of consequences.  The city was evacuated but some of them came back after a while, thinking that nothing would happen to them.

According to the movie all major explosion of the reactors happened mostly because of inadequate cooling.

 

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