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    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 a high speed and collided with the iceberg, and the hull steel contained high levels of Sulphur. The Hull Steel: After…

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    Nuclear power plants have always been controversial to environmentalists and the general public. They are as intriguing as they sound as well. Nuclear power plants are one of the alternatives to fossil-fueled power plants. Nuclear power plants is a thermal power station which uses the heat from nuclear fission in an enclosed environment to change water to steam. This drives turbine generators to produce electricity. A physician named Enrico Fermi discovered the potential of nuclear fission in…

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    Disaster recovery and business continuity planning are often used together and sometime employers think they are the same, but disaster recovery planning is different from business continuity planning. Disaster recovery deals with being consistent with pre-planning actions that will help the business be prepared after a disaster strike whether it’s natural or human- error, and business continuity deals with preventing the Disaster from happening(if it’s possible). Business continuity planning…

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    Nuclear energy should not be a resource after what happened in Japan on 11 march 2011. That day a Nuclear power plantation has been destroyed by an earthquake in Japan. It causes radiation all around Japan and many people died. It doesn't matter if the disaster happened on Japan just because Japan is known for tsunami, earthquake, storm surge, and floods.This global warming situation is out of control for everybody so this can happen anywhere and if any natural causes hit any nuclear power plant…

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    On July 10, 1964, Japan created the river act which purpose is to watch for and guard against water disasters. Since the creation of the River Act in 1964, the number for the amount of people dying when a flood does occur decreased significantly until the earthquake and tsunami in 2011. Japan also needs to build up their shorelines, either with walls made…

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    discharged a considerable measure of the dangerous toxin dioxin, TCDD, that fast settled on the town from claiming Seveso, Also slaughtered animals brought on wellbeing issues will mankind's. There are many of people who is responsible the Seveso disaster such as the company’s workers and directors. Also, there no professional engineers were present in the building and no safety measurements in the factory. Reference: 1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seveso_disaster 2)…

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    Insurance Claims

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    But, it is a protection you should use only when absolutely necessary. Making multiple or unnecessary claims can drive up your premiums and even make it hard to get coverage. Being smart with your insurance coverage will ensure you are covered in a disaster, without driving up your day-to-day…

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    Oil Tank Removal Cost is between $1000 and $2500, depending on the size of the tanker, Condition of the tanker, and how easily it can be accessed. Summary of the services that your contractor should provide for this price, includes how much to replace an oil tank, underground oil tank removal cost, cost to remove oil tank from basement, domestic oil tank removal, Underground Oil tank removal in long island, the cost of the replacements tanks, sampling of the tanks, testing of the tanks,…

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    Chile Collapse Case Study

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    he seemed worried. He was setting up a plan to get more provisions, as well as blankets and first aid kits into the Refuge, as if preparing for an emergency (Campbell, 2015). At many times throughout the San José mines’ functioning prior to this disaster, several contracting companies recommended the purchase of equipment that would be able to detect any potentially catastrophic movements in the mountain, however none of these systems were ever purchased (Campbell,…

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    Argon-Potassium (Ar-K)

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    Argon- Potassium (Ar-K) SYSTEM K- 40 is a radioactive and decays to two different daughter products, calcium-40 and argon-40, by two different decay methods (Wiens, 2002). This is not a problem because the production ratio of these two daughter products is precisely known, and is always constant: 11.2% becomes argon-40 and 88.8% becomes calcium-40 (Wiens, 2002). It is possible to date some rocks by the potassium-calcium method, but this is not often done because it is hard to determine how much…

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