week 11 dq post
I watched a documentary about building a huge building over the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (Barnett, 2007). I watched it with fascination and pure hard-core frustration. Studying the effects of the event is a species wide event. Every culture on the planet has been affected by that disaster.
It is interesting that it took 20 years and a couple dozen different companies/countries to come together to build that structure. It took more than a decade to plan it out, knowing full well that every minute vast amounts of radiation was leaking out. No one can live within x miles of the location.
However, despite the fact that America has the most experience in dealing with nuclear issues, and radiation, America was not involved with the process (Jacobs, G. A., Gray, B. L., Erickson, S. E., Gonzalez, E. D., & Quevillon, R. P. (2016). The primary contractor was French, with several other European countries and engineers working together. It is interesting that decades later cold war issues are still causing political problems (Jacobs, 2007).
Cross culturally, this is intense because despite being an E.L.E (Extinction Level Event) the politicians and countries involved could not get past egos and arrogance to come together in a cooperative manner. Same goes for the worst disaster Fukishima, where in the Pacific Ocean years and years later huge animals which eat small things are dying by the dozen. In the last year if I remember correctly about 2 or 3 dozen of the oceans different largest whale species have died in record numbers (Stout, 2004). But the Japanese and other cultures are so weird about the events, that despite the disaster happening mere feet from the Pacific Ocean and huge chunks of north eastern Japan are uninhabitable, the world cultures are still ignoring those facts.
Individually a large number of items and aspects to study (Wessells, 2009).
The thing which annoys me the most is all the nuclear engineers are forgetting the most important aspect of physics. An intensely strong Electro-Magnetic field will deflect Electro-Magnetic waves. Or the sun would destroy all life on earth in a small fraction of a second if the earths Magnetosphere was not present and strong. Those basic tools of Electro-Magnetic facts are not being applied to either disaster site. If they brought in huge generators to power the inside shell of either or both, the amount of radiation would reduce by a huge amount.
At various nuclear storage locations, same thing. Take the nuclear spent fuel rods and instead of letting them cool in million-gallon pools of water for decades, take the materials and put them into various Electro-Magnetic machines, direct the electrons (radiation) into a concentrated area that itself would generate vast amounts of electricity. The concept was used in the TV Show Timeless, however in the show that was fictional. In reality that battery would be huge, about the size of the craft itself, not just a super large fictional battery.
What cross cultural rules prevent basic applications of Electro-Magnetic physics to be applied to the nuclear industry?
References
Barnett, L. (2007). Psychosocial effects of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Medicine, Conflict, And Survival, 23(1), 4657. Retrieved from https://ezp.waldenulibrary.org/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mnh&AN=17370858&site=eds-live&scope=site
Jacobs, G. A. (2007). The development and maturation of humanitarian psychology. American Psychologist, 62(8), 932941.
Jacobs, G. A., Gray, B. L., Erickson, S. E., Gonzalez, E. D., & Quevillon, R. P. (2016). Disaster mental health and community‐based psychological first aid: Concepts and education/training. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 72(12), 13071317.
Stout, C. (2004). Global initiatives. American Psychologist, 59(8), 844853.
Sunil Bhatia: International Humanitarian Award (2015). American Psychologist, 70(8), 81818.
Wessells, M. G. (2009). Do no harm: Toward contextually appropriate psychosocial support in international emergencies. American Psychologist, 64(8), 842854.