Essay on The Natural Disaster (Flood In Pakistan) There are many questions emerging from the recent floods in Pakistan‚ ranging from attempts to understand the atmospheric phenomena behind the downpours to the search for where ultimate responsibility lies for the ensuing human calamity. This short essay investigates some of those questions. A pinch of geography is necessary to explain why Pakistan received such an extraordinary amount of rain during this rainy season. The Indian monsoon can
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Nuclear Medicine Nuclear medicine has been around for more than 50 years now and stems from the discovery of x-rays and artificial radioactivity. In 1946‚ nuclear medicine made a monumental breakthrough when radioactive iodine led to the complete disappearance of cancer in a patient’s thyroid. Nuclear medicine became widely used in the 1950’s to measure the function of the thyroid‚ to diagnose thyroid disease‚ and for the treatment of patients with hyperthyroidism. By the 1970’s nuclear medicine
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Nuclear Energy There are many advantages and disadvantages of using nuclear power. Nuclear power is said to prevent power outages that happen in areas without nuclear power. For an example‚ if we were using hydroelectricity and the dam suddenly malfunctions‚ then we won’t have electricity until someone fixes the dam‚ and that would be difficult if it happened in the middle of the night. However‚ on the other hand‚ nuclear power is also considered toxic and it pollutes the Earth with harmful and
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INTRODUCTION TO DISASTER 1.1 THE HISTORY OF DISASTERS IN INDIA Year 2005‚ say India should hang her head in shame. With the Bengal famine‚ Orissa Super Cyclone‚ Latur earthquake‚ Bhopal chemical disaster‚ Andhra cyclone‚ Gujarat earthquake‚ recurring floods‚ Mumbai 2008 bomb blasts and many other disasters there is no foyer in the world with space large enough to exhibit the collective pain on the face of India. India has ranked at the top or near top in almost all type of disasters with number
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Nuclear Power Nuclear power was discovered in early 20th century. In 1938‚ the first fission proved the great power of nuclear reactions. Only a few years after that‚ as the first nuclear bomb went off‚ nuclear power was successfully used by human. But ironically‚ that way is one of the most dangerous ways against human race. Nuclear power is one of the most powerful and dangerous energy sources in the human history. As the science and technology become better and better‚ nuclear power could also
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CHAPTER 1 GURGAON DISTRICT PROFILE 1. Introduction The primary requirement for making disaster management plan is the reliable and upto date information about topography and socio- economic and climatic conditions of this region. This will help in identifying the areas vulnerable to environmental and manmade hazards. This chapter deals with the information on geographical aspects of Gurgaon district‚ its area‚ population distribution‚ climatic condition‚ physiographic divisions as well as geology
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Nuclear Power After reading the article on Nuclear power industry feels the wind at its back by Barbara Wall. I realize that it was mainly focused on the environment and high-energy prices. Aft First of all I wanted to learn more about the environment effects‚ and I found out that the Nuclear Power has huge effect on the environment. For example the article mention the nuclear accident that happened in Ukraine on April 26‚ 1986. Millions of Europeans were affected by this explosion and fire
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Hello. In this report I will be informing you about nuclear energy. Prior to giving this information‚ let’s look at some history. Ancient Greek philosophers were the first to come up with the idea that matter is made up of invisible particles. The Greeks called these invisible particles "atoms"‚ which is Greek for invisible. Scientists studied this idea in the 18th and 19th centuries. After many experiments physicists found out that atoms contain a large amount of energy. Ernest Rutherford
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MAN-MADE DISASTERS Presented • Apoorv By • Lavany a Avir al • Nikh • INDEX Introduction Types of Man-Made Disaster Terrorism Nuclear Biological Threats Cyber Attack INTRODUCTION Man-Made hazards OR Anthropogenic hazards can result in the form of a Man-Made disaster. In this case‚ anthropogenic means threats having an element of human intent‚ negligence‚ or error; or involving a failure of a human-made system. This is as opposed to natural hazards that cause natural disasters. Either
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The Incident This happened to me last weekend . I am bored at that day . I was sitting outside my house alone because all of my friends were out of town . I was getting bored so I decided to ride my bike out to nearby garden . When I got there ‚ I saw nobody over there and I started feel curious at this moment . I sit on a meadow .I try to make myself more relax and take a nap . Suddenly ‚ I heard roar of thunder and the sky started become bad weather ahead . Dark ‚ smoky clouds threatened
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