I’d also take all my favourite things I own and bring them with me into my shelter‚ also I would gather everyone I love to come and stay in this shelter with me‚ I don’t know if it would work in the explosion but I would still try. I would try and go to sleep so that I wouldn’t be awake while the explosion was happening! That is how I would spend my day before the nuclear attack on Canada I would spend my last day with my family and friends. I would buy a whole bunch of things I have always wanted and
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Chernobyl Disaster On April 26‚ 1986 at 01:23 a.m.‚ an explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant occurred contaminating the surrounding areas with radiation. The result was the world’s worst accident in the history of nuclear power. The effects that this disaster caused were endless. "Nine million people were affected from Chernobyl" (Chernobyl Heart). There were immediate as long as long-term health effects caused by this explosion. There were also many social effects after this disaster
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When people hear of Santorini‚ they think of the islands in Greece located in the beautiful waters of the Aegean sea. What many people do not know is that Santorini is in fact a scope of volcanoes‚ also known as shield volcanoes. Shield volcanoes are easily identifiable because they actually look like volcanoes (“Shield Volcanoes‚” 2016). I have actually had the pleasure of visiting Santorini a few years ago and I have included some pictures. Some of the things I have learned about this volcanic
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population explosion. Paul Ehrlich first introduced this idea in 1968 with his book‚ “The Population Bomb.” It succeeded in scaring the masses‚ just as Thomas Malthus did‚ but these theories suffer under the impression that humans are the only thing fluctuating. “Population rose six-fold in the next 200 years. But this is an increase‚ not an explosion‚ because it has been accompanied‚ and in large part made possible‚ by a productivity explosion‚ a resource explosion‚ a food explosion‚ an information
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these main theories was that Multicellular organisms originated slowly over the last billion years from unicellular organisms. Another main theory is that Multicellular organisms originated abruptly during the Cambrian (around 500 million years ago) explosion from unicellular organisms. While these two theories are very different from one another‚ many people support each of these ideas. However‚ I am very certain that the theory stating that they evolved slowly over the last billion years is correct
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“The Poem” A Reader’s Response analysis of the poem “Anatomic Pantoum” by Peter Meinke The poem is more likely about Chemistry. Specifically‚ it speaks about a nuclear weapon‚ an atomic bomb. The stanzas talk about the process of how the atomic bomb destroys the things it possesses‚ but this is only if take it in literal meaning. We have to look further than science‚ enhancing one’s observation and relating to emotions. In the first and second stanzas of the poem‚ it speaks about the chain reaction
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largest marine oil spill ever confronted in the history of the petroleum industry. The oil spill on the 20th of April 2010 was primarily the result of a gas release followed by an explosion in the Deepwater Horizon oil rig‚ in the Gulf of Mexico‚ established on the Mocando exploration well designed for BP. The explosion took the lives of 11 individual’s and rendered 17 severely injured. Furthermore‚ it led to devastating impacts on the environment‚ polluting both‚ the land and the seas. The Deepwater
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the next work shift‚ the primary condensate pump failed. None of those present were aware that a vital part of the machine had been removed and decided to start the backup pump. Gas products escaped from the hole left by the valve and lead to an explosion and resulting fire that destroyed the platform on July 6‚ 1988‚ killing 167 men‚ with only 59 survivors. The death toll includes 2 crewmen of a rescue vessel. Total insured loss was about £1.7 billion (US$ 3.4 billion). The generation and utilities
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was extremely high. This is one of the major consequences because many people at Hiroshima and Nagasaki died not only directly from the actual bomb‚ but also from the radiation released as a result of the explosion. The heat of the bomb was so intense that some people simply vanished in the explosion. The bomb destroyed mostly all the buildings so a lot of people were killed by falling debris.” I saw a bright blast‚ and I saw yellow and silver and orange and all sorts of colours that I can’t explain
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referred to mining accidents claiming five or more lives. Mine disasters once were really common. In the single year of 1907 there were 18 coal mine disasters.. Among the disasters in 1907 was history’s worst the Monongah coal mine explosion‚ which claimed 362 lives and impelled Congress to create the Bureau of Mines. I will discuss this disaster more later in this paper. Mine accidents have declined dramatically in number and severity through years of research‚ technology
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