Émile Durkheim

Fukushima Nuclear Energy Power Plant Incident Jeff Schinmann Red Lodge Highschool 4/18/16 On Friday March, 11 2011 2:46 PM Japan was hit a by a huge earthquake lasting several minutes which had a magnitude of 9. The earthquake of coarse caused alot of damage but the earthquake also caused a huge tsunami which then hit Japan causing even more damage then the earthquake did. This killed thousands of people and destroyed hundreds of thousands of buildings. The nuclear power plants…

Moscow, associates at the Research Institute for Radiation Medicine, Belarus, and Sir Alec Jeffreys of Leicester University, pioneer of hereditary fingerprinting. The group screened transformations in youngsters from the Mogilev locale of Belarus, 184 miles from Chernobyl, breaking down their hereditary fingerprints for changes brought on by radiation. Ukraine's represetative, Mykola Makarevych, said of 4229 dead, 2,929 had tuned in the clean…

The most devastating environmental event caused by humans was the Chernobyl disaster. Chernobyl is an entire city that had a nuclear accident causing damage to the surrounding area for miles. Chernobyl had many different effects on the environment. The accident was a man made occurrence and could have been prevented. Some of the effects on the environment was reduction of biodiversity, by killing and mutation of plants and animals. These are just some of the reasons that chernobyl is the worst…

10 Facts about Chernobyl On April 26th, 1986, an explosion caused by a testing error tore apart the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. The burst released a radioactive wave that was 400 times more concentrated than the Hiroshima nuclear bomb. To this day, those from the towns nearby and the surrounding area are suffering from the horrible after effects of the horrible disaster. Below are a few facts you might not have known about Chernobyl. 1. The explosion was caused by one of four reactors…

of shutting down this power plant for good. She proclaims that all the recent accidents that has occurred in the plant is leading up to a disaster. A major accident at this plant could put the lives of millions in jeopardy. New York City is only 25 miles away from the nuclear power plant. Kraft uses the idea that millions of people could be aaffected by radiation leaks to appeal to her audience’s emotions. This article strongly opposes nuclear energy; the author attempts to persuade her audience…

particular incidents of company/public relations were also evident during the accident of Three Mile Island in March of 1979, a couple of weeks after this film premiered. One of the major controversies surrounding this event was the miscommunications and conflicting reports from the company to the public. An example can be seen through Willam Scraton III in the documentary titled Meltdown at Three Mile Island, the company told Scranton that the radiation was contained inside the plant, leading…

the ones built in the west-ern countries due to the lack of a safety culture in the USSR. Soviet Russia had boasted how its nuclear power plants were the safest ones in the world in previous press conferences addressing the nuclear meltdown at Three Mile Island. According to the World Nuclear Association (WNA), the designs of the reactors built in the city of Chernobyl in Ukraine had serious mistakes and dur-ing a reactor systems test on April 26, 1986 the fourth reactor exploded. The root cause…

“Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.” (Thomas Edison) When most people think of the word nuclear it brings thoughts of pollution, sickness, and danger. Nuclear power is so often generalized into something it’s not. Nuclear power provides energy to millions of people throughout the world. It is the driving force behind everyday lives. Along with the benefits, many drawbacks are also present. Nuclear power reminds many of disasters such as…

When the Titanic collided with the iceberg, the hull steel and the rivets failed because the hull body and rivets were made by brittle materials. At extremely high speeds, the brittle fracture caused plastic deformation. The reasons of plastic deformation include low temperature, poor properties of the hull steel, and high sulphur content of the material. When the Titanic disaster happened, each of these three factors was present: The water temperature was very low, the Titanic was travelling at…

the reactors. The reactors were so damaged that they were impossible to restart. The source of the earthquake was approximately 43 miles east of the Oshika Peninsula. The earthquake was so severe it is now known as the Great East Japan Earthquake, which also triggered tsunami, waves that reached as high as 133 feet and when they hit shore, they traveled 6 miles inland. The earthquake alone caused tsunami waves, flooding, landslides, fires, building damage and a nuclear…