Disaster recovery

Part 1: Major Lab Accidents On January 7, 2010, two graduate students at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas were involved in a lab accident in the Chemistry building. While handling two explosive compounds, the students assumed that keeping the compound wet would prevent it from exploding when it come in contact with the solvent. When he noticed that the product was clumpy, one of the students used a pestle to attempt to break it up. In doing so, the product was detonated. One of the…

Gargamelle Bubble Chamber Do you wonder what a huge tank of 12,000 liters of liquid hydrogen could be used for? The Gargamelle Bubble Chamber is a large, cylinder shaped tank/chamber. It was full of pressurised liquid hydrogen. The camber was used to detect charged particles. The chamber needed many things to work, it detected bubble paths , and it took pictures to gather evidence of charges. The chamber worked by using neutrons, particles, charged plates, cameras, and liquid hydrogen. The…

Rahul Das Mrs.Miller ELA 7th Grade 1 March 2016 Many years people have been mining 370 meters under the earth to find uranium and make nuclear energy, and the after result is nuclear waste. Nuclear waste is a problem we had for decades. The 3 Mile Island is one of the biggest nuclear problem we, and yet barely any of the nuclear waste got out it caused a huge amount of damage to the environment. Not everybody will agree that nuclear waste can be used for good because nuclear waste did take…

A lot of people receive her admiration for the robot when they look to him as he moved and danced and imitate and speak and many of us believed that the robot is able to control himself he works and gives the orders himself like a man, but in the fact that the robot is a set of business and orders programmed rights to him and a lot ask how so? There are a lot of programs through which we can communicate with the robot make it like walking steps forward and backward or make it delves into the…

lead to the shutdown of all RBMK’s in the Soviet Union outside of Russia. Ultimately, the Chernobyl incident was the beginning of the international fear of “using bombs to generate electricity.” On the day of the second anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, Russian scientist Valery Legasov committed suicide. Upon his death, Legasov admitted that scientists had known of the issues of the RBMKs for quite some time, yet political censorship hid knowledge of accidents and problems from even the…

Three Mile Island is a great feat of technological advancement. It gives lots and lots of people clean power. Nuclear power plants create no air pollution which is the the biggest problem in our society today. There is a discussion whether it should stay open or go closed. I think it should stay open because there are way more benefits than negatives. Three Mile Island Is a nuclear power plant just outside of Harrisburg and powers many people's homes. It runs on uranium pellets which are…

JOURNAL TOPIC #3 - SETTING The setting is an integral part of any story, especially a Sci-Fi story. With no setting, the book has no location set with it, which can leave the reader confused and sometimes un-interested. The setting in The Kill Order, written by James Dashner, plays a huge role in the book. It communicates with the reader where these solar flares hit, and really how devastating they were. Dashner uses a really good sense of imagery to describe the setting in the book. Using this…

Some facts before the Hindenburg crashed and what caused it, When they filled up the Hindenburg with food and water it got to heavy and they had to throw out some things so they could land safely. A spark is the reason the Hindenburg caught fire and crashed. The reason the Hindenburg crashed was because a spark hit a hydrogen box and then it filled the ventilation ducts with fire and it spread everywhere and the Hindenburg caught fire and crashed. There have been some theory’s to why the…

The word Animal (jaanvar) is defined as "the one who lives" in Hindi while in the English language, Animal is defined as a living thing who behaves in a wild, aggressive, or unpleasant way. We live in a world where disasters are quite common throughout societies where innocent people are harmed and often forgotten or viewed as unimportant as an animal in the street. Many people suffer and many even lose their lives. The catastrophic gas leak at an American owned Union Carbide plant in Bhopal,…

Inspiration Resources Inc. employed me as a cutting machine operator at Mine # 5 for five months. Troy Lester was the superintendent and Casey Lester was the section Foreman at Mine # 5. I recall Mine Safety and Health Adminstration Inspector Tony Benton issuing us a violation and shutting down the cutting machine for a damaged cable. However, I do not recall the date he issued the violation. Benton shut the cutting machine down because the 480 -volt cable suppling power to the cutting…