To Deal with Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Accident

Abstract

Fukushima nuclear power plant once got impact from an earthquake, and it was disabled by a tsunami following. The chain reaction stopped but the remaining products of the chain reaction still release tremendous energy continuously, and the cooling system doesn’t work. Continuous seawater was injected into the reaction cores to cool down the cores, but radioactive seawater after being used to cool down the cores accumulated. At last, Japan made the decision to eject the nuclear wastewater into the sea, but this would threaten people’s health which is same important as life. The stability of a nucleus should be determined by the number of the neutrons and protons it contained, when the total number of nucleons inside the nucleus was under a limitation, the nucleus could be stable when the N/Z (ratio of the number of neutrons over the number of protons) approaches a value about 1, this value will be larger as the Z grows because the stronger electromagnetic forces will make more β+ decay of protons which produce neutron and is in a dynamic equilibrium with β- decay of neutrons which produce proton; therefore, to make up some α particles into the chain reaction products remained in the reaction cores may convert the remained radioactive nuclei therein to be stable ones, and the fusion of α particles with the radioactive nuclei in the reaction cores of which the elemental numbers are all heavier than iron can also absorb the energy that may be released in the processes, applying thin α particles beam could ensure the α particles only to merge with the radioactive nuclei in the reaction cores but never each other.