’m radioactive, radioactive” these are the lyrics to one of the most inspiriational songs of all-time. Imagine Dragons were diagnosed with cancer from radiation poisoning after they had a serious encounter with the element polonium. But, polonium isn’t the only deadly radioactive element found on the periodic table. Mercury, arsenic, caesium, polonium, and plutonium are among the deadliest elements found on the periodic table. Mercury is the fifth most deadly element found on the periodic table
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high risk. This is further magnified by two devastations that have occurred in the past, both of which were the result of malfunctioning nuclear reactors. One was the Fukushima incident in Japan, a series of explosions in the aftershock of a natural disaster. The second was at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, which released tons of radioactive materials and destroyed many lives. The power plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine, was the pride of the Soviet Union. One midnight test, on April 26, 1986, went terribly
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Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich is comprised of many personal accounts of the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl on April 26, 1986. The nuclear meltdown created by a destructed reactor caused a huge tragedy in Chernobyl. Workers, innocent citizens, and animals faced tremendous problems due to the catastrophe. They had many major health issues because radioactive chemicals were administered into their bodies and as a result, they just became very vulnerable to almost anything or anyone they
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The scholarly article, Hydration Assessment Techniques by Lawrence Armstrong researches the various ways to compute hydration and hopes to present guidelines for various conditions. The are many ways water can be lost throughout the body. Water can be lost through “the lungs, skin, and kidneys”, through cell circulation, through exercise, through illnesses, anf through lack of water consumption, just to name a few (Armstrong 2005, p.40). Armstrong describes water is measured by “Total body water”
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Aum Shinrikyo was a group founded by Shoko Asahara in 1987 with the ultimate intention of overthrowing the Japanese government, using religion, stores, and at one point a rock band, as sources of finance (BBC 2008). Eventually gaining enough funds, Asahara was able to acquire property west of Tokyo serve as Aum Shinrikyo’s HQ. It was at the HQ compound that Aum Shinrikyo scientists began experimenting with chemical and biological agents, to include “Anthrax, Cholera, Ebola, and … Sarin nerve gas”
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and business operations come close to a standstill. “Procedures are required that will permit the organization to continue essential functions if information technology support is interrupted.” On average, over 40% of businesses that don't have a disaster plan go out of business after a major loss. What Is Contingency Planning? The overall planning for unexpected events is called contingency planning (CP). CP is the process by which organizational planners position their organizations to
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Structural Engineering Mishaps and Disasters Hindenburg: An Unnecessary Disaster In the 1930s airships, better known today as “blimps”, were the main source of air travel. During this time, the airships were used for various different reasons such as: bombing enemy targets, patrolling coastal areas, escorting naval ships during the night or through unsafe bodies of water, or used to make luxury flights across the Atlantic. The Hindenburg was believed to be the biggest and most sophisticated
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effective marketing tool and a growth engine after the 11.03 disaster. 2 . Tonight we will first take a quick look at what happened in Japan that time, how this nation is looking to the future and then how 4 big Japanese companies responded innovatively as well as what this can mean for us as future business people. 3 Well, most of us were about to enter the university when we‘ve been looking at the images of the disaster coming from Japan. A nine magnitude earthquake followed by a
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severity to Chernobyl’s 1986 Nuclear Disaster, in March, 2011, Fukushima and the surrounding area went into crisis. Fukushima was hit hard with an earthquake followed by a tsunami which breached the power plant and lead to disaster. With safety measures catastrophically failing, pressure was building in Fukushima Daiichi and engineers had no choice but to open the unfiltered vents to release the pressure from the reactor (Bunn / Heinonen, 2011). Overall the disaster was a series of safety failures, equipment
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