FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI NUCLEAR DISASTER Date: March 11‚ 2011 Location: Ōkuma‚ Fukushima‚ Japan Construction began: July 25‚ 1967 (Fukushima I - 1) Commission date: March 26‚ 1971 (Fukushima I - 1) Operator(s): Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) Constructor(s): Kajima Injuries: 37 with physical injuries‚ 2 workers taken to hospital with radiation burns. THE POWERPLANT The Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant also known as Fukushima Dai-ichi (dai-ichi means "number one")‚ is a disabled nuclear
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Manila Hostage Crisis August 23‚ 2010 when Manila Hostage Crisis occurred at Rizal Park‚ Manila‚ it started when the gunman boarded a bus in Manila’s Tourist District Bus‚ he was recognized as Rolando Mendoza. He wore his old uniform and carried a riffle when he asked the tourist bus‚ Hong Thai Travel Bus‚ for a ride. It contains 22 tourist and 3 Filipinos. Rolando Mendoza was said to be discharged from the police force after 31 years of service because of his involvement in an extortion incident
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ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION Toward the start of my examination I was speculation to break down just 1% centralization of Sodium Bicarbonate in water‚ yet because of a few reasons my examination got put off and till then there was change in the temperature outside because of which I needed to build the fixation. The second analysis gave me sure results‚ yet in the first I never felt that the relocation change that would happen will be so less. The room temperature was one of our reliant variables‚ on
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1. Abstract The earthquake which took place on March 11‚ 20111 in the Tohuku District‚ Japan triggered a massive tsunami which eventually caused a nuclear power plant outbreak. The tsunami‚ 14-metres in height struck the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant‚ which is located in the towns of Okuma and Futaba in the Fukushima Prefecture. This resulted in loss of power to the reactors of Units 1‚ 2 and 3.Along with this damage‚ the cooling system failed to work and there were hydrogen explosions which ended
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For my first closed-ended question‚ I asked‚ “Do you support the building of nuclear plants?” I got a varied responses from the audience‚ eight‚ of the 16 in the class‚ supported the building of nuclear plants. The other half of the class said that they either didn’t have enough information or did not support the building. This leads me to believe that the class has mixed feeling on this topic and need more information over nuclear plants to make a decision. The next closed-ended question was‚ “Do
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Fukushima disaster Japan is one of the most affected countries by natural disasters because of it’s geographical placement on the tectonic plates. In 2011 Japan was impacted by a monumental earthquake that caused a tsunami. This provoked the nuclear plant Fukushima Daiichi to leak radioactive material into the farm lands of Japan. Fukushima was overheating due to equipment failure‚ and loss of coolant agent. This was the result of a nuclear meltdown. It was rapidly shut down to prevent any further
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Fukushima Power Plant Nuclear power plants now account for 14% of the world’s electricity supply [1]. These power plants differ only by the fuel used from oil coal or gas power plants. The concept is otherwise the same. Large nuclei become unstable when struck with a neutron‚ his causes it to split apart and also produce neutrons which are fire out. This then causes a chain reaction and other nuclei are split up. This splitting of nuclei is called nuclear fission and it provides heat which heats
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Applebaum Essay Anne Applebaum‚ an American Jewish journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author‚ has written extensively about communism‚ the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe‚ and about foreign affairs for the Washington Post. In one article Applebaum wrote for the Washington Post‚ she discusses the need to find new energy sources and her views against the expansion of nuclear power. Although Applebaum is an acclaimed writer‚ her argument against nuclear energy
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NUCLEAR POWER I’m against nuclear power because in my opinion it is very dangerous mostly for the population that live in the area of a nuclear power plant‚ but also for the environment and in generally for the health of all the Earth. I’m against the use of nuclear power for obvious reasons such as accidents in the nuclear power plant then in the history had made destruction and death‚ to give the two most famous examples Chernobyl(1986) and Fukushima(2011). The radioactive dust
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The 2011 Tohoku Pacific Coast Earthquake or more commonly referred as the ‘3/11’ disaster; first began as an undersea earthquake‚ off the coast of Miyagi prefecture. Then‚ the submarine earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0‚ transformed to a 15-meter tsunami waves (Akira‚ 2013). In the blink of an eye‚ the east coast of Japan‚ especially Sendai was engulfed by the massive tsunami waves‚ and led to the nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi and the Fukushima Daiini nuclear power plants. In the documentary
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