at killed. The number of thyroid cancers in the surrounding areas after the accident were also 100 times higher in the children. Radioactive iodine is absorbed by the thyroid gland, usually in very young children, where it can cause cancer, in some cases many years later. Ten year later babies are still being born with no arms, no eyes or only stumps for limbs. This is because radiation-induced genetic mutations can be passed down from generation to generation, this effect, was not observed in the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Chernobyl disaster devastated much of Europe and the surrounding countries. The affects of this explosion will not go away for thousands of years and some effects may never go away ie.the genetic mutations. Many people are still dying due to radiation-induced cancer. If this one accident had such a great effect, do we really want to allow the chance for it to happen again? I argue that we should have learned from this incident, it affected the whole world, caused 800,000 deaths, and is still causing death today.How often do these accidents occur? There have been 7 major accidents since 1952 including the Three Mile Island accident in Harrisburg PA, when one of two reactors lost its coolant, which caused overheating and partial meltdown of its uranium core. In Chalk River, Ottawa, Canada when a partial meltdown of the reactor's uranium fuel core and millions of gallons of radioactive water accumulated inside the reactor. The most recent was in Tokaimura, Japan, when uncontrolled chain reaction in a uranium-processing nuclear fuel plant spewed high levels of radioactive gas into the air, exposing 69 people, killing 1 worker, and seriously injuring two others. This was Japan's worst nuclear accident. Therefore, as you can see, accidents do happen, there have been hundreds of minor accidents all over the world, and even though they are just small accidents, they were accidents. All of these have some kind ...
