Japan earthquake and tsunami - 2011 Japan is an island nation located in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean‚ it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan‚ China‚ North Korea‚ South Korea and Russia. Japan is an archipelago of 6‚852 islands. The four largest islands are Honshu‚ Hokkaido‚ Kyushu and Shikoku‚ together comprising about ninety-seven percent of Japan’s land area. Japan is a major economic power and has the 3rd largest nominal GDP Its GDP per capita is $34‚739 or the 25th highest in the
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The nuclear accident that happened in Fukushima in 2011 is the worst miserable thing that happened in the past‚ and this disaster have leaked significant amounts of radiation that have affected ecosystems in the region. On March 21‚ 2011‚ TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company) investigated the seawater near the southern discharge port of the Fukushima Daiichi NPS‚ revealed that radioactive substances significantly exceeding safety standard values were detected. According to National Geographic‚ Joseph
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How does Nuclear power work and what happened at Chernobyl? What would you do if your town had a nuclear power plant explosion? Would you help clean up or would you just leave town? I would help the people of my town by cleaning up. The chernobyl explosion was caused by an operator error‚ and cost a lot of money and hurt a lot of people. Nuclear power is made up of atoms that are constructed like a mini solar system. By the late 1950’s nuclear power was developed. There are two types of uranium
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Sophia Domeyko Economics I Mr. Tiffany April 26‚ 2013 Nuclear Energy Externalities Nuclear power is a concept that has been evolving and has become a key in the race for the newest and best source of renewable energy. Nuclear power generation involves the use of large nuclear fission reactors that generate electricity through fission reactions and heat generation. Nuclear energy has many positive externalities but in the past the technology has proven that it has major downfalls as well
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Time Line of Events 1970 March-construction of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant begins 1972 Discussion takes place in Kiev about type of nuclear plant to be built in Chernobyl. For the reason RBMK (a boiling water reactor) was built because it was the safest reactor and produced the cheapest electricity as well. 1976 October-Filling of cooling water reservoir for the Chernobyl Power Plant begins. 1977 The first of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plants four reactors is ready to operate followed
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Introduction After the Fukushima nuclear reactor disaster‚ radioactivity and radioactive contamination have become a topic of our conversation. In the initial stage‚ people were terrified by it and spread bad gossip about it although they did not know what it is exactly. I think we should learn what radioactivity is and try to stop spreading incorrect information about it. I heard the words “The correct decision is made by the correct information and the correct analysis.” I agree with it‚ so I
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And I will introduce the disadvantage of nuclear power. The high Invest Costs would be the first challenge to face‚ The construction cost of a nuclear reactor is high; according to various studies‚ the total cost of building and making a nuclear power plant operational ranges between $8-17 billion(which is about 5~11 billion pounds). It implies a huge amount of investment from the beginning to the end — how to handle nuclear waste‚ or ‚more specifically‚ the Radioactive Waste. Radioactive Waste
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Business‚ Government & Indian Society KUDANKULAM NUCLEAR POWER PLANT Team: TYPHOONZ – Group 6 Akash Solomon Akhil Vijayakumaran Nair Binu E Pradeep Joel Abraham Jyotsna Joseph Ritty Kuriakose Kudankulam So Far: Inter-Governmental Agreement on the project was signed on November 1998 by then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev‚ for the construction of two reactors Project remained in limbo for a decade due to the political and economic upheaval in Russia
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Ever since the democratic system is established across the globe ‚conflicts between people and the government over certain issues are quite a common thing.But some conflicts in this globe happened for a reason.Mahatma Gandhi’s freedom movement‚Aung san su ki ’s struggle for freedom‚ Nelson mandela’s struggle against Racism are a quite a few incident’s which cannot be erased from the history. But all the above mentioned conflicts are happened between the people and the colonial government but the
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Koodankulam Protest: A Performativity of Survival Submitted to Trina Nileena Banerjee Political Theatre By Akhila Vimal C MA Arts & Aesthetics Winter semester 2012 Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi Koodankulam Protest: A Performativity of Survival An Inter-Governmental Agreement on the project was signed on November 20‚ 1988 by Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev‚ for the construction of two reactors. The project remained in limbo for a decade due to
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