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You are an Asia-based advocacy group that is trying to change public opinion against nuclear power. Your group believes that the Japan Earthquake and the subsequent nuclear emergency that followed is a warning sign to all Asian countries that nuclear power is simply not a good option because it is impossible to predict all of the possible ways that things could go wrong.

Your group plans on attending the town hall meeting and raising the awareness of the local people in Da Lat who already have a plant working and those in Ninh Thuan who are going to start seeing a new plant being built in 2014. You are also interested in convincing other influential people in business and government that they should not support nuclear power in their towns and in Vietnam. You understand that this is not going to be an easy task since both groups have already stated that they are in favour of nuclear power.

Not only does your group think that the famous historical cases of nuclear accidents prove that no more nuclear sites ought to be built anywhere, you are hoping to capitalize on the fear that people feel at moment to create political pressure to get existing nuclear plants shut down (like the plant at Da Lat).

Your group wants to win over as many people at the meeting today as possible by scaring them with the hard facts about what a nuclear accident will mean for the people in these towns and for the future of the country.

Your position is that it is clearly better to use other forms of energy (even coal and gas burning energy) than to believe the “lies and deception” of the organizations that keep telling us that this form of energy is safe. Your members are passionately against this terrible form of energy and you need your most passionate speakers to be ready with convincing voices during this debate to get your points across.

//** Group Blurb **// Our group believes that nuclear power should be not be used in Vietnam, especially after what happened in Japan and past incidents. Previous accidents have told us how dangerous nuclear energy can be, the process of getting the nuclear power, and the nuclear waste that is produced. Our country is already unstable in an economic sense, and if an accident were to occur, Vietnam will suffer in terms of economy, environmentally, socially, and it would be devastating for the future generations, to live in a radioactive environment. Why Should we take the risk of using nuclear power, when there are other more safer alternatives.

Environment: Nuclear waste will damage the environment by spreading the radiation there. It will also affect the animals in the environment, because the radiation can cause the genes to mutate. Animals in the wild might also die from all the radiation. Economy: It will cost a lot to repair anything that was damaged or destroyed such as reactors, cooling the reactors. Also, people would have to be evacuated somewhere else, and that would mean that people would have to move to some other place to stay. Social: This would be because people would have to evacuate and stay somewhere else. Also, people may have lost realities, and a large population of the community could be injured or contaminated with the radiation.

Chernobyl After Effects and Vietnam

The Chernobyl accident that happened around 25 years ago, still has effects today. Around 125,000 square miles of land in Russia and the Ukraine was affected with radioactive nuclides (atom with the same atomic number as the mass number). Around 50,000 square miles of the soil that was contaminated was used for agriculture. If this were to happen in Vietnam, it would almost mean certain death for the poor farmers that have little more than a few rice paddies to keep their family alive. The soil that was affected in Chernobyl, also isn't allowed to be used until around 2065, when it will finally be in the final stage of purging. This would have a devastating affect in Vietnam, as the land is used a lot for growing crops that would provide for a family. It would almost be like revoking the land of farmers, and telling the to go to some sort of quarantine, or just evicting them of their homes. They may not be well educated, and only know how to farm for a living. They may not know anything else than farming, and have limited education, so they won't be able to work or provide for their family. This is a picture of a reactor. If one part doesn't work properly, like the cooling, the reactor may leak or stop working properly.

Health Problems

After the Chernobyl incident, the increase of Thyroid Cancer occurred among young children and adolescents that lived in the contaminated areas. This is due to high level of radioactive iodine released into the environment. Radioactive Iodine was released into pastures eaten by cows, and these cows are milking cows. The milk from these cows will then be drunk by children. Children with advanced tumors can be treated, but they will still need to take drugs for the rest of their lives to replace the loss of thyroid function. Ionizing radiation also cause a certain type of leukemia. The elevated risk was first found among survivors of the atomic bombing in Japan two to five years after the exposure.

The lens of the eye is very sensitive to ionizing radiation, and cataracts are the result from effective doses of about 2Sv. Cataracts are clouding that develops in the crystalline lens of the eye or in the envelope. The production cataracts is directly related to the dose. The higher the dose of radiation is, the faster cataracts appear.

Russian studies show that among emergency workers, the risk of death from cardiovascular disease have increased. The Chernobyl have also caused psychological distress to people around the contaminated areas, and the also to liquidators (cleaners of Chernobyl. They are scared of another Chernobyl is going to happened, they are also scared for their children as they might get expose to radiation and get cancer. Several syndromes characterized by unexplained physical symptoms such as fatigue, sleep and mood disturbances, impaired memory and concentration.

**//Dangers of Nulear Power and consequences://** //People wonder what we do with the nuclear waste produced in nuclear power plants, and some are even suggesting we dump it in the sea. This would only infect inhabiting fishes, and then to the people that work with it through transport, or eat the fish. This would cause a kind of chain reaction, and there are chances that the fishes in contact with radioactive water to be mutated. This will give us interesting effects by eating the fishes that are mutated and polluted with radioactive agents. The pollution will poison our bodies, and might cause cancer, and after continuously eating the polluted fish might cause damage or death to your digestive system, and would turn you into a victim of radiation. There are health risks that concern people that breath and drink radioactive air and water for long periods of time. For example, drinking water that contains alpha radiation could cause bone cancer. Having more radioactive materials inside a home could make actions such as taking a shower and doing laundry increase the risk of someone getting lung cancer.//

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