The Investigation about Impacts of Fukushima Nuclear Leakage Accident and Effects on Public Attitudes

Abstract

The safety issues of using nuclear energy and its probability to become a reliable, efficient energy source in the future are controversial topics that people are arguing about. This essay focused on the analysis of specific nuclear energy accidents, which represented the safety problems of using nuclear energy, and discuss some personal opinions on the plausibility of nuclear energy becoming a dominant energy source in the future, which gave some understanding of nuclear energy use in environmental aspect and thus help people to gain a better understanding toward nuclear energy usage. In the illustration part, this essay collected data, research, and explanations from several articles and essays to provide a comprehensive analysis. At the end of this research, I found that damages caused by nuclear energy are severe and unneglectable, which can greatly pollute land, atmosphere, and ocean in a wide region. Therefore, a large number of people opposed further use of nuclear energy owing to its disastrous effects after the accident. However, nuclear energy has several benefits that can become a dominant energy source in the future. Overall, nuclear energy can become reliable in the future although the consequences created by the leakage after the Fukushima nuclear leakage accident are severe, which would be discussed in the following essay.