If nuclear plant has to be constructed in Malaysia, the following regulation must be adhered - zero plant accident per infinite time. The reason is simple. Malaysia is an equatorial country, meaning we have daily rain (almost). If a meltdown occur, and radioactive material is released to the air, monsoon wind will definitely carry the radioactive material across a few hundred kilometres away. While wind carrying radioactive can be prevented from residing in our throat or stomach through proper protective device, rain on the other hand will contaminate our soil and water catchment area. That happened during Fukushima Daiichi disaster. Radioactive substance travel around 200-300 km from Fukushima Daiichi to Tokyo water catchment system and for a few days the radioactive measurement was high and an alarm was given to alert the young public not to consume water sourced from tap. Tokyo resident was lucky that most of the time, the wind moves the radioactive towards the U.S. and they had only 1-2 days of rain during the peak of the disaster which causes the radioactive reading in millisevert to spike for a few days . So, the alarm was casted only for a week as the radioactive level of water catchment area drop later. Anyway, if the water is consumed or released in whatever means, radioactive contaminated water will go elsewhere. The bigger headache was how to clean contaminated soil. So imagine; what would happen if a partial meltdown occurred in a tropical or equatorial country when rain occurs daily and caused longer contamination to the water catchment system and caused higher degree of soil contamination ?
Posted on: Sat, 08 Jun 2013 01:01:21 +0000
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