Thearesa Lima 12/11/12 Unit 5 – Assignment SC155 – Intro to Chemistry What is nuclear power? Nuclear power is a power source that uses fission of uranium to generate heat. The heat is used to create steam from water that is used to create electricity that people use every day at home or work. There are about four-hundred nuclear power plants in the world and one-hundred of them are located in the United States. We will be looking at the risk and relative gains of using nuclear power over
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The audience has seen a lot of news that covers the nuclear disasters so they are most familiar with those. The last question was‚ “What is the first thing that comes to your mind when discussing nuclear energy?” The most notable response was Chernobyl. This is very common of people to think about when pondering nuclear energy. This is the most documented and historical significant nuclear plant disaster. In the survey everything went as expected. There were no surprises‚ almost everyone thought
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Title: Today’s Human Malady: the Nuke plant’s radiation Japan’s nuclear plant in Fukushima‚ northeast of Tokyo‚ had been the latest scare for the past few weeks. It seems that the nuke’s condition is worsening. First‚ it there was just a leak‚ then it turned into a hydrogen explosion and now it is a partial meltdown. People fear the dangers of radiation especially now that it is reported that there are considerably high radiation to Japan’s water and vegetables. It is important that the public
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oil (Drash‚ 2011). Also‚ coal was running out and natural gas had finished in the 1950s (Drash‚ 2011). According to the international Atomic Energy that Fukushima classified on the agency scale as a grade 7 accident‚ which was in the same grade as Chernobyl accident‚ but a few number on the agency’s scale (After Fukushima: Enough Is Enough‚ n.d.). The shaking of the earth in the east of Japan on 11 March 2011. This earthquake caused a powerful tsunami that reached the height of approximately 15 meters
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Nuclear disasters From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia The list of the worst disasters at nuclear power plants and other facilities all over the world is presented below: During the 2011 Fukushima nuclear emergency in Japan‚ three nuclear reactors were damaged by explosions. Following an earthquake‚ tsunami‚ and failure of cooling systems at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan on March 11‚ 2011‚ a nuclear emergency was declared. This was the first time a nuclear emergency had
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SECTION 1 The Three Mile Island Nuclear Meltdown and the Possible Health Effects of its Children Problem From the nuclear disaster of Chernobyl in April of 1986‚ the medical world has learned much about the possible effects of radioactive materials being exposed to humans‚ specifically the pediatric population. Through this disaster‚ we learned that children and fetuses exposed to radio-nucleotides were susceptible to central nervous system dysfunction leading to microcephaly and retardation‚ congenital
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will remain radioactive for thousands of years”‚ according to It affects human health most of all if such radioactive material is kept for a long period of time. Therefore‚ human health has also been a crucial issue due to the major events such as Chernobyl or Fukushima nuclear power
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1 FAULT TREE ANALYSIS 1. Introduction FTA is a deductive‚ failure-based approach. As a deductive approach‚ FTA starts with an undesired event‚ such as failure of a main engine‚ and then determines (deduces) its causes using a systematic‚ backward-stepping process. In determining the causes‚ a fault tree (FT) is constructed as a logical illustration of the events and their relationships that are necessary and sufficient to result in the undesired event‚ or top event. The symbols used in a FT indicate
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Advantages and Disadvantages of Alternative Energy Sources 1. Introduction Report suggests that the current main energy sources are fossil fuels (e. g. oil‚ gas‚ and coal) (Planete energies‚ n.d.). However‚ fossil fuels are non-renewable‚ it will run out in future and the price of oil‚ gas and electricity keeps rising yearly. As a result‚ the need of alternative energy is important. The main alternative sources are nuclear energy‚ solar energy‚ wind energy‚ hydroelectric energy‚ biomass power
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Can Divorce be Beneficial for Children? Jennifer Cersey DeVry University Can Divorce be Beneficial for Children? I stared into his uncontrolled‚ demonic eyes just inches from mine as I watched his body tremble and quake with wrath. It was an unbridled anger I had encountered many times before. I listened as the sharp words escaped his mouth‚ piercing me like daggers. Not knowing if any hasty movement would have dire repercussions‚ I stood frozen‚ heart racing‚ undecided of my next move
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