risks associated with such disasters and the subsequent environmental remediation efforts all serve as important lessons and warnings for impending developments in nuclear power. Conversely‚ should nuclear threats to public health prove unavoidable‚ swift action should be taken to limit long-term environmental degradations through comprehensive waste disposal and remediation. Even with existing technologies in nuclear waste disposal‚ clean-up following a nuclear disaster still occurs at a painstaking
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The Hubble Space Telescope was launched after a two-year delay on April 24th‚ 1990 from the space shuttle Discovery. This telescope has a length of 13.2 meters and a weight at launch that was 11‚110 kg. It is a space-based optical reflective telescope that observes distant and faint objects. (NASA) One of the most important discoveries of the Hubble Space Telescope has to be that it has revealed the age of the universe to be 13 to 14 billion years old‚ this was a huge improvement from the earth based
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The MODIS is the primary instrument in the NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) Terra and Aqua satellites‚ which were launched in December 1999 and May 2002 respectively‚ for the purpose of monitoring the seasonality of global terrestrial vegetation. MODIS is a multi-spectral sensor with 36 discrete spectral bands ranging from visible‚ near infrared‚ to thermal infrared‚ which has been extensively used for land‚ ocean and atmosphere research. The equatorial crossing time for Terra and Aqua satellites
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Aberfan Disaster At least 85 children have been confirmed dead A generation of children has been wiped out” Minister of State for Wales At 0915‚ just as the pupils of Pantglas Junior School were about to embark on their first lessons. Only 25 children survived the catastrophe One of the first acts of the Labour Government when it was elected in 1997 was to pay the £150‚000 back; figure should have been nearer £1.5m £500 was paid to those involved‚ and £1‚000 to those who had lost one or more
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This case centers on the original 3 Skylab missions that began in 1973 following a successful series of Apollo missions starting in the 1960’s. NASA viewed the Skylab missions as logical successors of the Apollo missions and each of the Skylab missions picked up where the prior one left off. The primary focus of the missions was to determine if humans could in fact live comfortably for extended periods of time in weightless conditions and prior to Skylab‚ there was very little solid research done
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Jonathan Chen Space Exploration There are many reasons on why space exploration has become a necessity for us‚ as the amount of money being invest on space exploration‚ has increased drastically. From 1950’s the amount of money spend was 89 million which was a large sum of money back then. While we move up in the years the amount of money on space exploration increases‚ for instance in the year 2010 it was the most amount of money spent on space exploration than any other year. A total of 18‚724
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The book Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman should be a book that is praised by everyone and is found significant in everyone’s lives‚ for it offers a great deal of knowledge and experience within the subject of mental illnesses. This particular novel gives the reader a secret look at what it is like to be a teenager plagued by mental illnesses‚ which is why it is definitely worth reading. A few reasons as to why the novel should be read include: the novel passes an important message to the reader
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ter 1 CHAPTER 1 DISASTER MANAGEMENT An Introductory 1.1 Disasters – The Indian Scenario India supports one-sixth of the world’s population on just 2% of its landmass. It suffers heavily from natural disasters of every shade and description hits the poorest of the poor and which is why the considerations of disaster safety deserves prime attention. A High Powered Committee (HPC) of the Government of India‚ in its report submitted to the Government of India in October 2001‚ outlined the huge
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SPACE TRAVEL 1. Only three nations have successfully put people into space: the US‚ Russia and China. All have been government programmes‚ developed at great expense. Now‚ a new era is beginning in which private enterprise will take people 100km or more above the Earth. _________________ 2. In 2001‚ an American‚ Christ Tito‚ became the first space tourist. He travelled to the International Space Station by Rocket and stayed there for ten days. A year later South African Millionaire
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CHAPTER 1 GURGAON DISTRICT PROFILE 1. Introduction The primary requirement for making disaster management plan is the reliable and upto date information about topography and socio- economic and climatic conditions of this region. This will help in identifying the areas vulnerable to environmental and manmade hazards. This chapter deals with the information on geographical aspects of Gurgaon district‚ its area‚ population distribution‚ climatic condition‚ physiographic divisions as well as geology
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