They 're are the cons that it causes nuclear accidents, it is unknown what to do with the waste. Which causes huge conflicts, mostly due to the media, we only see the problems like Chernobyl and Fukushima. There is the downside of a high production cost not a high power production cost, but a high upfront cost to build the plant. There also the con of getting land to build and plant because you can 't put it near a high population or…
I believe that Three Mile Island needs to stay open. Nuclear Power Opinion Paper-Three Mile Island: Rough Copy Three Mile Island (TMI) is a nuclear power plant located in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, running since 1974. In 2019, the Exelon Corporation plans to shut down Three Mile Island, an essential role in the economy that produces a large amount of Pennsylvania's electricity. This is because because they haven’t been profitable for the past 5 years, and have lost more than $300…
The collapse of societies and the events that lead to the fall of a society have always been of great interest in scientific study. The story of environmental distress causing collapse on the island of Rapa Nui has become very relevant to modern society in the past few decades. The fall of the Polynesian society on Rapa Nui is popularly attributed to the inhabitants destroying their environment (Middleton, 2012, p. 270). This account of events is used as a model in the public eye in an attempt…
corresponds with the accident in Fukushima. On March 11th, 2011, an earthquake struck this area in Japan; this earthquake had a magnitude of 9, which triggered a disastrous tsunami that reached wave heights of over 120 feet. The power of this natural disaster was unbeknownst to Japanese citizens and government, although some of the effects that it caused could have been much less if proper precautionary measures were taken (WNA). When this calamity had occurred, it instilled fear inside of…
between stations due to a mechanical problem. As a result, 235 people were slightly injured, 3 people were serious injured and about 1,000 commuters were evacuated. Also, it makes property damage 2.8 billion won.” Fortunately, it was not terrible disasters, but this accident remind us that 10 million people taking a subway in Seoul are always exposed to danger of accident. Especially, it happened when I arrived at the Seoul station on my last birthday. So, I remembered vividly this accident.…
The Titanic was a cruise ship manufactured in the 1900s that was said to be "unsinkable" However it sank due to many design flaws and material failures. The cause of the titanics sinkage was due to the hull of the titanic colliding with the iceberg which ultimatley caused a brittle fracture within the hull steel. In order for a brittle fracture to occur there has to be three important factors a material or object must encounter,which are a high sulpher content,low temperature and a high impact…
Chronic Illness Paper The topic for my chronic illness paper is thyroid cancer. I chose this particular illness because it has affected a few people in my immediate family and I wanted to get a better understanding of this chronic illness. Thyroid cancer, as described by The American Cancer Society, is when cancer starts in the thyroid gland. The thyroid gland is below the thyroid cartilage (Adam’s apple) in the front part of the neck. In most people, the thyroid cannot be seen or felt. It is…
It may be possible to survive a nuclear explosion, but the aftermath hits even harder. Survival may be hard in the nuclear winter, but in “ The Portable Phonograph” by Walter Van Tilburg Clark, the character, Dr. Jenkins, has it figured out. Gratefully he has fire and water and protection, which according to the article “ How to Survive Nuclear Winter” by James Roberts, Dr. Jenkins has all the needed supplies for the winter. Although it may not be the an ideal type of winter, but nuclear bombs…
Cave Painting Tour In the video Lascaux Cave Paintings – Visual Tour I was able to see the different type of cave paintings done by humans long ago. In 1500 B.C.E. many groups settled together in France and started doing their very first cave paintings by hand. It is so amazing how humans like ourselves were able to do those cave paintings by hand and be the very first to discover handwriting. In 1940 three teenage boys discovered this cave in a little village in southwestern France They…
I t has been more than 70 years since the Mt.Vesuvious disaster rocked Pompeii. On 1944 august 24 a shallow quake shook Pompeii and the volcano started to get magma and erupt. The quake happened 16 years before which messed up the volcano which finally made it heat up magma and erupt Before the Pompeii incident happened people were just sitting around and doing what they do every day. And when the volcano started to erupt they didn’t know what to do because they were unprepared and didn’t…