The Land Rising Again On March 11, 2011, an earthquake measuring a magnitude of 9.0 occurred off the coast of Honshu. The earthquake produced a tsunami that affected mostly Sendai and would take the lives of thousands of people and more in injuries. Fukushima Daiichi is declared a nuclear disaster when a meltdown of the reactors in the nuclear power station left contamination in the water, land, and air. In the aftermath of the tsunami of March 11, 2011, the people of Japan have not only the
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Introduction of accident Following a major earthquake, a 15-metre tsunami disabled the power supply and cooling of three Fukushima Daiichi reactors, causing a nuclear accident on 11 March 2011. (http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/fukushima_accident_inf129.html) What is radiation and how it damage people. Radiation may be defined as energy traveling through space. Non-ionizing radiation is essential to life, but excessive exposures will cause tissue damage. All forms of ionizing radiation have
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Do Nuclear Power Plants Affect The Surrounding Environment? From rivers and lakes, to forests and woodlots, Ontario is abundant with rich and vibrant ecosystems. However, as human development spreads to every corner of the province, these lively habitats are in risk of not only endangerment, but now extinction. One of the main concerns of the threat of the wild environment in Ontario is the introduction of nuclear plants. Animals are also being affected by the nuclear plants because of the radiation
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The concept of risk is the probability of an unwanted event which may or may not occur. Risk assessment is the overall process of identifying all the risks to and from an activity and assessing the potential impact of each risk. BBC News website, Radioactive warning on Fife beach read at [1] on 14 May 2006 - Sepa has been carrying out a risk assessment at the bay and now wants a detailed investigation to be carried out. The determination of the potential impact of an individual risk by assessing
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Written Assignment 3 “Documented Writing” Using the articles you have read for this module, search engines, and the EBSCO databases, write a 500-word essay on what you believe to be the greater threat to the nation—cyber crime directed against individuals or terrorist cyber attacks on national institutions. Provide your opinion on whether the United States is active enough in countering these threats. Cyber-Savvy Bombardments In the case of cyber attacks, where the results can vary from the
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Radioactive contamination With the development of the science and technology, nuclear energy is replacing conventional energy rapidly. It produces enormous energy by few resources. However, nuclear leak caused by an earthquake in Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant last year lead to a severe radioactive contamination. This raises great attention to nuclear safety. Radioactive contamination is the harm to individuals or equipment by the unregulated radioactive materials, such as radioactive gases
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CRAC-II is both a computer code (titled Calculation of Reactor Accident Consequences) and the 1982 report of the simulation results performed by Sandia National Laboratories for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The report is sometimes referred to as the CRAC-II report because it is the computer program used in the calculations, but the report is also known as the 1982 Sandia Siting Study or as NUREG/CR-2239. The computer program MACCS2 has since replaced CRAC-II for consequences of radioactive
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Nuclear Engineering and Design 240 (2010) 2820–2830 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Nuclear Engineering and Design journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/nucengdes Assessment the safety performance of nuclear power plants using Global Safety Index (GSI) Ayah E. Abouelnaga ∗ , Abdelmohsen Metwally, Naguib Aly, Mohammad Nagy, Saeed Agamy Alexandria University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Nuclear and Radiological Engineering, Alexandria, 21544, Egypt a r t i c l
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ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANT RADIATION Technology has a significant role in today’s world. It can also affect many peoples’ lives. It makes life easier and more efficient. However in today’s world, there are some who have considered about the danger it may cause. People have started destroying our environment by using destructive weapons to defeat and lead with possession. There is dangerous equipment which had been manufactured throughout the world. Nuclear weapon is one of the most destructive
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The Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident The Three Mile Island nuclear reactor meltdown accident is one of the most notable commercial nuclear power station reactor accidents to have occurred in the United States (Walker, 2004). Metropolitan Edison Co. operated the plant. On 28th March 1978, one of the nuclear reactors in the plant (TMI-2) suffered a partial meltdown, resulting in the emission of mild radioactive elements into the environment (Walker, 2004). What ensued was legal action by PANE, trying
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