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 power plant located
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Baba Gyani Triviani said: "Good were the days when people played Duke Nukem‚ Now people just say Dude Nuke ’em" Nuclear energy has been a controversial topic and a topic of debate from ages ago. In this post‚ I would like to analyse this from a layman’s perspective. Countries are growing rapidly‚ both economically and by population. And a commodity that seems to be needed more than ever‚ and the need for which will continue to grow unabated is energy. Energy is needed to do anything - Whether
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To what extent did the nuclear arms race make the world a more dangerous place in the years 1949-63 The cold war brought about an arms race that increased in pace as the years went on‚ in this instance we speak of danger to mean having a significant impact on the lives of many people throughout the world through the use of nuclear arms. The world was endangered in many ways by the conflict between the Soviets and the US‚ as new technology was successfully developed not only did the number of atomic
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ATGE1073 Engineering Science II Tutorial: ATOMIC & NUCLEAR PHYSICS Prepared By NHL 1 Q1. The radioactive nuclide 199Pt has a half life of 30.8 minutes. A sample is prepared that has an initial activity of 7.56x1011Bq. (a) How many 199Pt nuclei are initially present in the sample? (b) How many are present after 30.8minutes? What is the activity at this time? (c) Repeat part (b) for a time 92.4 minutes after the sample is first prepared. (a) 2.02x1015‚ (b) 1.01x1015‚ 3.78x1011Bq‚ (c) 2
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Lecture notes by Prof. A. K. JAIN‚ IIT ROORKEE CHAPTER 13: The Deuteron (Lecture time: 2 Hours) Deuteron is the simplest nuclear system where nuclear forces come into play. It is the “Hydrogen Atom” of nuclear physics. It may also be viewed as the simplest odd-odd nucleus‚ having one proton and one neutron. It exhibits features which require the use of a number of new concepts such as exchange force‚ tensor force etc. Of three possible states of two nucleon system‚ di-neutron‚ di-proton‚ and deuteron
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significant environmental damage. Let ’s face it. We don ’t want safe nuclear power plants. We want NO nuclear power plants —A spokesman for the Government Accountability Project‚ an offshoot of the Institute for Policy Studies‚ The American Spectator‚ Vol 18‚ No. 11‚ Nov. 1965The Atomic Energy Commission which was created in 1953 wanted to initiate nuclear power‚ to push towards nuclear weapons and to make plans to use peaceful nuclear explosives for civil engineering projects.
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1. Environmental impacts of nuclear waste. Nuclear waste or radioactive waste is the residue of nuclear reactors‚ nuclear researches‚ nuclear projects and nuclear bomb reaction. Nuclear wastes‚ also known as spent fuel‚ are dangerously radioactive and could exist for thousands of years. The release of nuclear waste from its reactor could easily cause a lot of diseases like acute radiation sickness. The injection of nuclear waste to underground water causes water pollution and could contribute
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“Nuclear energy research initially was concentrated on producing an atomic bomb for use in World War II. The development of nuclear energy for… the generation of electricity began only after the war ended in 1945” (Miller 1). Due to quick assumptions and little research‚ nuclear energy is thought of to be a safety hazard and used for weaponry and destruction amongst people. However‚ nuclear energy is more than mere darkness. People do not realize that there is more to nuclear energy than danger.
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Nuclear Proliferation Affecting The World in a Negative Way For the past thirty years‚ Iran and North Korea have been trying to develop and design a nuclear warhead‚ nowadays; American spies say that Iran has built a Uranium enrichment plant on Qum. Uranium enrichment is the hardest step in order to produce nuclear weapon‚ and North Korea has already tested nuclear weapons the past years. This is a way to prove that nuclear proliferation keeps increasing in the world and this could balance the
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Disadvantages of Nuclear Power http://wanttoknowit.com/disadvantages-of-nuclear-power/ The Basics of Nuclear Power Nuclear power is generated from a metal called uranium. Uranium is mined in places such as Australia‚ Argentina‚ Canada‚ Brazil‚ China‚ France and many other countries. The uranium is used to create controlled nuclear reactions called nuclear fission. Nuclear fission gives off a tremendous amount of heat which is used to heat water to create steam. This steam turns turbines which
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