Nuclear Disasters
            
            
            
             Today in our energy hungry world, the reliance on nuclear power is getting larger
            
             and larger. Nuclear power is on top of the list of forms of power available to
            
             generate electricity in the quantities, forms and reliability needed as we head
            
             towards the 21st century. Current operating nuclear plants number approximately
            
             430 through out 26 countries .
            
            
             Nuclear energy production will grow an average of 3.3 to 4.2% Per Year
            
             worldwide from 1988-2005 (IAEA News briefs, Sept.1989). Though we have
            
             experienced if not the worst techno genic environmental disaster of the 20th century
            
             fourteen years ago - Chernobyl, together with the partial meltdown at Three Mile
            
             Island twenty-one years ago, most people today give only passing thoughts to the
            
             issue of nuclear safety worldwide. These two cases are only mere examples of the
            
             ominous potential for accidents of great magnitude within such nuclear plants
            
             worldwide. It is vital that we understand both the logic and outcomes of such
            
             disasters. Today fourteen years later, effects of Chernobyl are still hazardous and
            
             have been detected all over the world. Belarus, a country most affected by history's
            
             worst nuclear disaster does not even have a nuclear plant. The radiation released
            
             from Chernobyl was 200 times more than that of the combined releases of the
            
             atom bombs that annihilated Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Due to prevailing
            
             winds, 25 percent of the land in Belarus is uninhabitable. All normal life has stopped
            
             there, people are afraid to move, stay, marry and afraid to have families. The costs
            
             of the accidents after-effects are monumental; resettlement of people affected,
            
             medical and clean-up costs are just a few on the priority list.
            
            
             The problem lies in ignorance of interactions between human, engineering,
            
             organizational and managerial factors of such a system....