Disaster film

Bhopal India 1984 On the night of the 2nd of December 1984 tragedy struck in Bhopal, India killing an estimated 20,000 people. It began with a pesticide plant by Union Carbide. Union Carbide had diversified into India via Union Carbide India Limited. They had suspected that India was an enormous market that was yet to be tapped into and discovered. At the time UCC was one of the first companies to invest into India (Union Carbide Corporations). The plan was to sell their pesticide “Sevin” to…

took it upon themselves to perform a stress test on reactor number four. The engineers, even though they had little experience with reactors, wanted to see if the reactor’s turbine could run the emergency water pumps with inertia alone (“Nuclear disaster”, 2016). The engineers disconnected the reactor’s emergency safety systems, as well as its power regulation system. The engineers then reduced the power to the point where the reaction in the core became highly unstable. When they noticed this,…

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.…

ISCM ensures that the IT infrastructure and IT services can be restored within the specified time limits after a disaster has taken place. It also supports overall business continuity management (BCM), this process addresses business objectives. It analyses and manages risks to:  Reduces risk to an acceptable level  Develop plans for restoring business activities in case of disaster. Issues that might be addressed because of ITSCM:  When firms seem unable to move out of the planning stage…

HISTORY: When a thick fog engulfed London from December 5 to December 9, 1952, it mixed with black smoke emitted from homes and factories to create deadly smog. This smog killed approximately 12,000 people and shocked the world into starting the environmental movement. Overview of the Great Smog of 1952: When a severe cold spell hit London in early December 1952, Londoners did what they usually did in such a situation; they burned more coal to heat up their homes. Then on December 5, 1952, a…

emotional trauma as illustrated by the victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Svetlana Alexievich’s…

still displays emissions 50 times less than coal plant emission s and 25 times less than natural gas plant emissions (What is Nuclear?). Not only that, nuclear energy also has been shown to be safe. Although there have been big disasters such as the Three Mile Island disaster in 1979 when there was a reactor core meltdown, causing a release of radioactive material into the atmosphere (Nuclear Energy). Another such event which happened in Chernobyl, Ukraine in 1986 was even worse. A steam…

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…