Disaster film

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…

exist. Losing an important part of the ecological food chain would have repercussions, possibly worse than we could imagine. While literature like Silent Spring helped bring attention to environmental concerns in the mid to late 1900s, several fatal disasters struck a stronger chord. Smog in Pennsylvania and the fire-lit Cuyahoga, for example, illustrated just how dearly the environment needed policy reform. However, these incidents didn’t build up over night: Air pollution damages the earth’s…

The article “Why I Still Support Nuclear Power, Even After Fukushima” by William Tucker portrays that all energy technologies have risks and that the world needs to use nuclear technology to help maintain the standard of living. For example, the natural gas explosion in Cleveland, the coal mining in china, and the hydroelectric dam collapse in Japan are all examples of technology accidents. Tucker implies that nuclear power does have some risks but it is still one of the best sources of energy.…

The accident at Three Mile Island (TMI), reactor two (TMI-2), not only halted the production of more Nuclear power plants in the United States but also taught us the importance of having: Workers with the appropriate knowledge, education, experience, and training with handling of nuclear material, maintenance, and facility operations. A chain of command clearly laid out, with whom needs to be informed, also how to accrue and convey accurate information to ensure safety and continuous operations.…

Born on September 3rd 1992, Maxphe Kerman was raised in a New Kerman City apartment as an only child. His mother died when he was three from heavy metal poisoning when a large glass bottle of mercury fell of a shelf and landed on a project she was working on that involved melting titanium. The mercury boiled away almost instantly, expsing her to a lethal amount of mercury fumes. Without his mother to provide most of the money, Maxphe and his Dad's wealth went from upper class to lower middle…

The tower of London is an 900-year old castle in central London, the castle is housing the crown jewels and many famous and not famous prisoners. The castle is now one of the most popular attractions in London. William the Conqueror created the first fortifications after the conquest of London. The building probably started in 1078. The white tower is central in Londons fortress the tower of London.It is the oldest part of the castle. The white tower is a massive construction. 27,4 meter high…

ConocoPhillips ConocoPhillips Co. is a multination energy corporation. It is the world’s largest independent company focusing on the production of crude oil and natural gasses. The company was first founded in 1875 as the Continental Oil and Transportation Co. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConocoPhillips) ConocoPhillips and COMAH Foreword: The ConocoPhillips Humber Refinery is a Major Accident Hazard site as defined under the COMAH (Control of Major Accident Hazard) Regulations 1999. The…

Because of the accident at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, the Fukushima group evacuation test, the decontamination cost of the Nihon Matsu Golf Course, the Fukushima nuclear power plant litigation caused the Tokyo Electric Power shareholder suit. There are various reasons for these lawsuits ("Litigation Movement"). For example, it is necessary to protect children from radiation, to receive compensation from TEPCO, to ask the responsibility of TEPCO's Board of Directors to keep safety of…

Hazardous Chemical: Methyl Isocyanate (MIC) In December of 1984 in Bhopal India there was an extremely large chemical leak (Schlager, 2008). The chemical was called methyl isocyanate (MIC) and was used as an intermediate to create a pesticide, or a substance that is used for killing organisms called Seven. Seven, which kills several different types of bugs and is used specifically in Asia but globally as well, is also an insecticide, or a beneficial chemical that kills insects (Living With…