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Cable car crash in Stresa in Italy avoidable After it had been ascertained that the brakes of the cabin unhoped off in Stresa retreating at high speed on the carrier cable could not get into action (three people were arrested) due to a special bracket, which serves in the storage operations of the cabin, it is quite clear that the serious accident with fourteen victims and an injured child happened on the cable car that leads to Mount Mottarone could have been avoided. There is talk of malfunctions of the system that led to the decision to travel a cabin with this kind of latch or fork that blocks the brakes while the other cabin has stopped regularly. Probably more careful maintenance was needed since already the day before the event there had been major malfunctions, then the frayed and broken tract cable although overhauled it seems to have been in service for twenty-five years. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: 26/05/2021 
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 Controlled release of radiation into environment The case of the possible release into the environment, from the containment tanks of the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant, of more than one million cubic meters of water considered weakly radioactive (due to tritium that escaping special decontamination treatment) into the sea or perhaps causing it to evaporate into the atmosphere has caused debate about the regulations established by international authorities on this type of operation and apparently considered almost normal in the maintenance of the ten-year activities of a nuclear plant, although typically for much smaller quantities. In the meantime there is talk of a series of safety flaws found at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant, then Japanese fishermen protest against the decision taken for Fukushima by the Japanese authorities and there is no shortage of complaints from China and Taiwan. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: 17/04/2021
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Ten years since the Fukushima disaster A ceremony in Japan recalls that ten years have passed since the melting of the cores at the Fukushima nuclear power plant caused by a strong earthquake of magnitude nine and subsequent tsunami waves more than sixteen meters high, while the decontamination of the affected area proceeds slowly and some say that the company that manages the plant has learned little from its mistakes and important safety flaws remain. There is talk over time of a peak of four hundred and seventy thousand people forced to evacuate and about forty-one thousand were allowed to return to their homes, then the fuel rods were also removed from reactor three, but for the other two the date (in 2019) was postponed to 2029 and postponements would have been decided with regard to the release into the sea of contaminated water from the cooling tanks, there is also the technical challenges that are difficult to solve. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: 11/03/2021 n: 4656 Material stored in Beirut without security Irrespective of the causes of the explosion of more than two thousand seven hundred tonnes of ammonium nitrate in the port of Beirut, one wonders how it was possible to store without complying with the standards recommended by minimum safety criteria such a quantity of hazardous material. There are reports of one hundred and thirty-five casualties, for a provisional balance, five thousand injured and air in the city unbreathable so that the authorities have recommended the evacuation of the population also because of the danger of inhaling the gases released by the fires; then impressive are the images of the explosion provided by the media and the cloud of gas that has risen over the city with a mushroom shape. It should be noted by completely changing the subject but remaining on safety issues that the victims 19-nCoV would be over seven hundred thousand while international health authorities warn that the pandemic will be long-lasting. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: 05/08/2020 n: 4472 Delayed dismantling procedures in Fukushima The Japanese authorities announced that the procedures to remove spent atomic fuel rods from reactors one and two will be delayed by five years, raising doubts about compliance with the decommissioning procedures of the Fukushima plant, then in practice all the various scheduled dates of intervention were postponed. It seems that the delay is justified by safety measures having to build a barrier around unit one to prevent the spread of radioactive dust and for the decontamination of the unit two. The nuclear power plant had recently shown obvious vulnerability due to the impact of Hagibis typhoon, forcing operators to release radioactive water from storage containers (thirty-six of which were lost because they were dragged away by vortex) due to heavy rainfall that saturated the management capacity of the temporary cooling system of the melted reactors. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: 28/12/2019 n: 4278 Controversy in Japan over radiation and typhoons The decision of the Japanese environment authorities to release radioactive water directly into the Pacific Ocean because the capacity of the containment tanks, filled with more than one million tons of water, was depleted before time from nuclear reactors damaged by a tsunami in 2011, has caused protests from environmentalists and especially fishermen who fear the collapse of the fish market by thwarting efforts to revive the sector and not to only in this country. The water contains tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen that is difficult to separate and considered relatively dangerous (compared to other radionuclides that for years some say have been spilled into the sea due to leaks of the cooling system ), and there would be other contaminants whose presence has been admitted by the plant operator in the past. Then there is the talk of controversy about the weakness of infrastructure in Tokyo after the passage of Typhoon Faxai, which also caused three casualties. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: 11/09/2019 n: 4185 Sinks a ferry on the Tigers river in Iraq Would be at least one hundred victims, most women and children, due to the shipwreck of a ferry on the Tigris fiver in Iraq at Mosul; it seems that the boat overloaded with people began to embark water and was increasingly burdened on one side until it was completely reversed, then is talk also later of the rise of the river water for the opening of a dam to Mosul. Many on board did not know how to swim and the rescuers even with the use of helicopters have managed to save fifty-five people, while the authorities have opened an investigation into the incident and arrested some members of the crew. To be reported changing the subject but remaining on issues that concern the safety that an Indonesian flight company would cancel the purchase order of forty-nine "737 MAX 8" airplanes considered unsafe. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: 22/03/2019 n: 4038 Compensate damage to the Fukushima inhabitants The company that manages the atomic plant of Fukushima must compensate a strong sum to one hundred and fifty-two local residents damaged by the nuclear accident of 2011 (the most serious after that of Chernobyl in 1986), at least from what results from a verdict of the Yokohama district court that stresses how disaster could be avoided by adjusting the plant with a proper barrier against tsunamis. In March of last year a Kyoto court in the west of Japan had already identified the same responsibilities with compensation for a hundred ten resident of Fukushima, but in September 2017 a court of Chiba near Tokyo had judged responsibility only of the operator of the plant. About twelve thousand people forced to leave their homes because of the radiation would be involved in various legal disputes that always concern the underestimation of the tsunami risk by the the government and the operator of the atomic power plant. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: 20/02/2019 n: 4010 Fire in a unsafe hotel in Delhi Would be at least seventeen the victims and nine the injured due to a fire in a hotel located at Karol Bagh in New Delhi in India while the fire brigade teams still try to cool the smoking rubble. It seems that the roof was of fibre in contravention of the building law; moreover the evacuation corridors being encarsed of wooden panels did not allow customers to get safe, many were suffocated and two were thrown from a window on the fourth floor. It investigates the causes of the fire, perhaps a short-circuit, and negligently since there have been many violations. To be reported changing the subject but staying on safety issues that in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand in recent days have been sold seventy nine thousand litres of adulterated liquor, is speak of one hundred victims. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: 12/02/2019 n: 4003 Collapses bridge subject to decay in Genoa Controversy after the collapse of a long span of the imposing Morandi bridge inaugurated in 1968 that would cause thirty-eight victims and fifteen wounded for the degradation of the structure that was clearly visible, then some said that they felt strange noises while the vehicles passed on the structure built of prestressed concrete, reinforced concrete and metal joints now worn by intense traffic even if we talk about a lightning that hit the bridge during a violent storm that preceded the collapse. The authorities ensure that the maintenance of the structure was constant, but can not understand why a span has practically crumbled while many for years demanded the replacement of the bridge now inadequate to the new needs of heavy traffic load even if it was very difficult to proceed to the closure of a street almost obliged to pass to proceed to the work. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: 15/08/2018 n: 3847 Security and health * The author doesn't assume some kind of responsibility for the bad use of the articles councils (all rights are reserved) |
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