trying to cleanse and renew itself." She not only uses sarcasm to make reader think what she is saying is meant to taken literally‚ but she classifies the main methods to poison the earth. She stress the need for toxic chemicals like uranium-238‚ plutonium‚ PCB‚ and DDT. Along with the need to spread those chemicals around the earth‚ she starts to persuade the reader that if those two parts happen‚ we will poison the earth. The next two paragraphs she emphasizes several ways to spread the toxins into
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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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in time from 1985 to 1955 with a time traveling car. Which was invented by his good friend that is a scientist named Dr. Emmett Brown but know in the film he is named Doc. When Marty was sent back to 1955 he forgot to take with him the sufficient plutonium to power the time travelling car‚ in order for him to get back to 1985. When Marty time travelled back 1955 he came acquainted with his future parents. However‚ the plot thickens when his future mum Lorraine gets a teenage crush on Marty her son
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with the boons‚ nuclear power stations requires lesser fuel then power stations which burn fossil fuels to produce the electrical power of the same amount. An illustration of the radioactive substance used by the nuclear power plant is uranium and plutonium.(Leh‚ Y. K. ‚Chuan‚ K. K.‚Chang‚ S. L. ‚2008‚ Radioactivity‚ p.534). Nuclear energy releases million times more energy if compared to other alternative such as hydro or wind energy.(Pandit‚ R‚ 2011‚Advantages and Disadvantages of Nuclear Energy‚
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Linnea Saukko wrote the piece “How to Poison the Earth”. The piece is a satire. A satire is the use of humorous‚ ironic‚ and exaggerative speech or writing to bring light to politics and other topical issues. Plenty of the nightly shows have adapted to this format. This format allows a speaker/writer to create a persona that mirrors them. This mirror persona is so amplified that the audience comes to the realization “on their own” that they hate this persona. The readers will take this and
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The Atomic Bomb The atomic bomb is a powerful‚ explosive nuclear weapon. It is fueled by the fission of the nuclei of specific amounts of plutonium or uranium‚ in a chain reaction. The strength of the explosion created by one of these bombs is equal to the strength of an explosion created by thousands of tons of TNT. The atomic bomb was first created in the early twentieth century. Physicists in the United States and Europe had discovered that the fission of uranium could be used to create
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NUCLEAR POWER IS NOT THE ANSWER by Helen Caldicott [Editor’s note: The following is the Introduction to Dr. Helen Caldicott’s new book Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer.] “[Nuclear power] is a very important part of our energy policy today in the U.S. . . . America’s electricity is already being provided through the nuclear industry efficiently‚ safely‚ and with no discharge of greenhouse gases or emissions.” —Vice President Cheney in a speech to the Nuclear Energy Institute‚ May 22‚ 2001 “The 103
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process that powers active stars‚ the hydrogen bomb. Most nuclear fuels contain heavy metal fissile elements that can be made to undergo a nuclear fission chain reaction in a nuclear reactor. The most common fissile nuclear fuels are Uranium 235 and Plutonium 239. There is no disagreement that clean sources of energy are vital to the environment. Nuclear energy has been proposed as an answer to the need for a clean energy source as opposed to CO2-producing plants. Nuclear energy is not necessarily
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The world’s greatest physicists and mathematicians took part in commanding the efforts during World War II‚ the project was projected to cost a heaping $20 billion due to the production of the first uranium and plutonium bombs. Albert Einstein influenced the beginning of the Manhattan Project. In collaboration with Leo Szilard‚ Einstein wrote a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939‚ to inform him of possible German nuclear weapons research and proposing
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is long-lived high-level radioactive waste. The paper will discuss extensively about the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership Plan‚ which helps to lower the amount of waste by the construction of many fast-neutron reactors to fission the recovered plutonium and other transuranic elements. Environmental Issue related to nuclear power is also in debate on the question that whether it can be a solution to climate change. There has also been a debate on the
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