What are the alternatives to the western conception of the Nuclear family? The nuclear family is well known conception within the Western world. It consists of 2 adults and 2.4 children. There are many supporters of this traditional family construction‚ and there are many with contrasting arguments who disagree. An alternative to the nuclear family in the west is the extended family. It consists of the traditional nuclear family and added relations such as an aunt‚ or cousin. The been-pole
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Cole Government October 12‚ 2009 Nuclear Proliferation Nuclear proliferation is an important world issue. It is the spreading of nuclear weapons technology to rogue states‚ and can be very hazardous to our country and many others. It is a tough task‚ but we are doing everything we can to stop nuclear weapons from falling into the hands of terrorists. Recently‚ A.Q. Khan‚ the father of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb‚ has revealed that he has been selling nuclear weapons technology to Libya and other
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of the disastrous nuclear accident in Fukushima‚ Japan last year‚ the crisis of a nuclear accident and its consequences has once again become a hotly discussed issue. A nuclear accident is defined by the International Atomic Energy Agency (2008) as "an event that has led to significant consequences to people‚ the environment or the facility. Examples include lethal effects to individuals‚ large radioactivity release to the environment‚ or reactor core melt." The causes of a nuclear accident mainly
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Iran’s Development of Nuclear Weapons If Iran were to obtain nuclear bombs‚ would there be any stopping the irresponsible‚ irrational country? With the popular foreign policy being one of proliferation fatalism towards Iran’s nuclear development‚ several countries in the international community question how a nuclear Iran would respond to threats of harsher sanctions. The issue of a nuclear Iran is extremely important‚ because several international countries worry how a nuclear Iran would affect
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Bataan Nuclear Power Plant Bataan Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant‚ completed but never fueled‚ on Bataan Peninsula‚ 100 kilometers (60 miles) north of Manila in the Philippines. It is located on a 3.57 square kilometer government reservation at Napot Point in Morong‚ Bataan. It was the Philippines’ only attempt at building a nuclear power plant. [pic]History The Philippine nuclear program started in 1958 with the creation of the Philippine Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) under
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The possibility of a nuclear terrorist attack is very real but how realistic is the threat. The number of terrorist attacks has dramatically increased since the Cold War and is not only continually increasing the number of attacks but intensifying each attack. Since the September 11th attacks‚ numerous movies have been produced bringing the idea of a nuclear terrorist attack to life for several hundreds of Americans. The question that these movies are over exaggerated and unrealistic or that they
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What is nuclear medicine? Nuclear medicine is a specialized progressive specialty used to diagnose and treat diseases in a safe and painless way. Nuclear medicine helps in identifying the abnormalities and organ malfunctioning at an early stage- long before the same are apparent with other diagnostic tests. Why is it called nuclear medicine? This field of specialization includes the use of radioisotopes (radioactive material). Hence a combination of drugs and radioisotopes is used in the same. They
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Nuclear free New Zealand history evaluation To do this project I have had to research‚ annotate and gather information about the topic that I choose. The topic is Nuclear Free New Zealand‚ I opted for this topic because I had never studied it before and I was interested on learning more about it. Gathering the information was quite easy‚ I think I’ve got plenty of it and it should be enough to cover the entire subject. Annotating the information was quite hard as I was short of ideas and I
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sense‚ nuclear power is considered one of the most controversial technologies related to the new millennium. Many people think that nuclear power can provide low-cost energy which can easily substitute oil and the other common sources of energy. In addition to this‚ nuclear weapons are considered the only instrument which can make possible the maintenance of word peace. The nuclear problem is complex and difficult to analyze without any kind of prejudices. First of all‚ it is true that nuclear power
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Nuclear Bombs August 6th‚ 1945‚ the US drops the first nuclear bomb in combat over the city of Hiroshima‚ in Japan. This date is a huge part in our history because no weapon of such mass destruction has ever been used in combat like this. Three days later another nuclear bomb is dropped over Nagasaki‚ as soon as the bomb detonated around 80‚000 people died almost instantly showing the sheer power the bomb. A nuclear bomb has never been used in combat since then‚ but nuclear development has created
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