Holding The World To Ransom

Imagine a movie about a tropical island in the South Pacific where the plot shows innocent people living quietly, minding their own business. Their demands are small, asking only for what the land itself can supply. Their carbon footprint is very light and they don't crave for the wealth of their materialistic neighbours. They live in simple homes, eat simple food and have a happy outlook on life.

They live in Vanuatu in the South Pacific, which was voted the Happiest Country on Earth.

However, an insidious and silent but lethal killer lurks over the horizon. One that could utterly destroy their simple way of their life. It could rob the islanders of their home and their future. Even now it is sounding its unrelenting death toll.

All this could happen because of some faceless multi-million dollar companies profit taking and the demands of high finance and the modern world, while every person's life on this planet is placed at risk.

At the damaged Japanese Fukushima nuclear power plant radiated water seeped into the sea, after a tsunami and earthquake that registered 9 on the Richter scale. During the building of the power plant faults were covered over and the correct checks were not performed over the operating years. It was too costly for the company to create proper protection for an illegally held amount of spare nuclear rods, or the backup generators in the basement.

Fukushima was not planned to withstand the 7 metre wall of water that slammed into it on March 11, 2011. All this on top of a known fault line.

The fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster affected hundreds of thousands of innocent bystanders, plus contaminating the area for nine hundred years. The accident was caused through unsafe ways of operation that left the power plant vulnerable to a power surge.

In the U.S.A. only two, out of 110 nuclear power plants were reported to have full fire safety regulations in place. The regulations are 'over kill' was the claim of many in the industry.

There are 9 nuclear power plant accidents since 1975.
•1975 Germany – Electricians’ error caused a fire in the main trough, destroying control lines and five main coolant pumps
•1977 Czechoslovakia – Sever corrosion of the reactor released radioactivity into the plant area
•1979 Pennsylvania, U.S. – Partial core meltdown (Three Mile Islan)
•1985 Alabama, – Suspension of all three units at Browns Ferry through instrumentation malfunction
•1986 Massachusetts,– Emergency shutdown through recurring equipment problems
•1986 Chernobyl, Ukraine – Explosion and meltdown
•1987 Pennsylvania, U.S. – Two units shut down through cooling malfunctions
•1996 Florida,– Shutdown though equipment malfunction
•2011 Japan – Fukushima
One of the most important problems is what to do with the amount of high-level radioactive waste, which includes non reusable reactor rods, that nuclear power plants produce.