Food Safety Thesis: The food supply in America is not safe‚ because there are unknown ingredients that have caused foodborne illness and food has been modified. I. Foodborne Illness a. Statistics 1. The CDC says foodborne diseases sicken about 48 million Americans each year - one in six of us. About 3‚000 people die from the diseases each year‚ and 128‚000 are hospitalized. 2. Salmonella is one of the most common foodborne pathogens in the United States‚ causing an estimated
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Nuclear Power may be atmospheric friendly‚ but it is capable of causing extensive harm on any living organism. One of the worst nuclear power accidents happened in the United States on March 28‚ 1979. The accident occurred at 4:00 a.m. at the Three Mile Island 2 Nuclear Power Plant in Pennsylvania. Three Mile Island has two power plants and together they supplied about 300‚000 homes with electricity. The accident started out as a mechanical malfunction‚ but was intensified by human errors. It was
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Unit D6011696: Support Children and Young People ’s Health and Safety. . Learning Outcome 1: Understand how to plan and provide environments and services that support children and young people’s health and safety. 1.1 In order to ensure a safe and healthy environment and services for children/young people there are some factors which need to be taken into account. These include any equipment which they will be in contact with‚ such as electrical equipment‚ anything which may pose a fire risk
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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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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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THE NUCLEAR ARMS RACE The nuclear arms race began during World War II when the United States was informed that the Nazis may be building a weapon of mass destruction‚ the atom bomb. The US‚ realizing that the Nazis could possibly develop this weapon making them unstoppable‚ started its own nuclear weapons program‚ called the Manhattan Project. The US won the first nuclear arms race when they tested the first nuclear weapon on the Alamogordo Bombing Range in New Mexico on July 16‚ 1945. Only
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Nuclear Energy – Blessing or Curse? Nowadays hot debates surround use of nuclear energy. It is widely suggested that it is one of the cheapest and cleanest energy resources‚ whereas others strongly disagree with that viewpoint‚ and claim that use of nuclear energy poses an unacceptable risk to the environment and to humanity. Consequently‚ there are many demonstrations against nuclear power plants worldwide‚ whereas others consistently support nuclear energy. Where does the truth lie? One of the
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Advantages and disadvantages of Nuclear Power As an important part of science‚ at the moment‚ nuclear technology is being continually and effectively developed. Regarding to nuclear‚ there has always been controversies over whether its advantages outweigh its disadvantages. From my point of view‚ the matter of the use of nuclear power should be taken seriously and thought about carefully with positive attitude towards it. On the one hand‚ nuclear has been providing us with energy
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The Nuclear Power Crisis In Japan Rabeea Bakrea Introduction:- Japan right now is facing a great energy problem‚ since the Tsunami on March 11th‚ 2011 the country shut down most of the Nuclear Power Plants for maintenance purposes but until now‚ they did not come back to normal‚ talking in numbers 43 out of 52 Nuclear Power Plants were shut down (The Economist‚ 2011). Japan is one of the largest nuclear power countries in the world‚ with 52 plants in operation‚ three under construction and 11
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