Chernobyl disaster

The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Disaster In March 2011 an earthquake followed by a tsunami caused the destruction of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant releasing radioactive material into the. In 2011 it was reported that long-lived radioactive cesium had contaminated 11,580 square miles of the land surface of Japan 4,550 of which had a radiation level that exceeded Japan’s allowable exposure rate of 1 millisievert per year .The Japanese government then raised the allowable…

Engineering Disasters One of the most famous engineers was Thomas Edison who famously stated that “ [he had] not failed, [he had discovered] 10,000 ways that did not work”. Despite Edison’s numerous failures, he eventually perfected his version of the light bulb, got it patented and proceeded to make his invention available to consumers. Edison’s approach illustrates the engineer’s ideal process, as he repeatedly tests and perfects the design of the desired result before releasing the result to…

Have you ever imagined not being able to go to your hometown? Chernobyl is what that's like. About a couple months after the accident the elephant's foot was found. The foot has many life-threatening effects. The effects were way worse back then, then they are now. The elephant's foot is a very scary thing. After the tragedy of Chernobyl, a toxic lump of radiation was found. Even though it happened over 30 years ago the elephant's foot is still lethal and it will be for 50,000 more…

Humanity is in a race against time as the threat of global warming looms on the horizon. To prevent catastrophe, the nations of the world must focus on decreasing their carbon dioxide output by as much as possible. While agriculture and industrial processes have a high carbon footprint, fossil fuels are by far the biggest contributor to anthropogenic global warming. Therefore, the best way to mitigate the problem is to replace coal and oil with cleaner sources of energy. Solar and wind power are…

cause cancer or premature aging. Aside from health risks, another disadvantage of nuclear power is that there is the constant risk of a meltdown. It only takes a small mistake for everything to go wrong. For example, in 1986 the Russian power plant Chernobyl was destroyed when, during a safety drill, the reactor core became overheated and the reactor exploded, blowing off the roof of the plant and causing a fire. Thirty-one of the sixty-nine firefighters who rushed to the scene died from direct…

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…

happen with both Chernobyl and Fukushima. No one was trying to use these power plants as weapons. No, due to unfortunate circumstances the plants became radioactive and displaced civilians in the country. I find the nuclear bombs are one of the greatest threats to human security. All it takes is…

the accident to make sure that nuclear plants are as safe as possible. !!!Introduction to the Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident Nuclear apocalypses are a Hollywood favorite, but how close has the United States actually come to a severe nuclear disaster? In 1979, we came pretty close with the __Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident__. The Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident involved the partial meltdown of a nuclear reactor inside a Pennsylvania nuclear power plant.…

Hello name’s Cameron, Cameron sydnor and I used to work at a nuclear facility . The chernobyl nuclear disaster was a terrible event, yet very few people actually know the backstory of the plant. Despite the story being fairly interesting. For example did you before the meltdown the leader of the facility once said “the chance of a full scale meltdown is one in a million” clearly this man cannot see the future or else he would have said (scream this) “OH NO THE PLANT IS GOING DOWN WE ARE ALL…

The Nuclear Option good or not for humans In this article, Will Ripley, Junko Ogura and James Griffiths discuss the Fukushima: Five years after Japan 's worst nuclear disaster with three parts. As we know on March 11, 2011, an earthquake and tsunami of unprecedented led to major problems at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Operating reactors shut down automatically, with control rods inserting into the reactor cores. A 14meter high tsunami triggered by the earthquake disabled all…