Disaster

Disaster Recovery Plan Wichita State Shockerthon is a company focused on creating awareness and support by raising money for the Children’s Miracle Network. Shockerthon uses a database to store many of our clients personal medical information, donor emails, and supporter credit card/debit card information. It is important that Shockerthon creates a plan of action incase the information system is threatened. These threats could arise from natural disasters, security breaches or a virus. Although…

code of ethics. They violated many parts of the code in particular part 2(i) which states that the engineer must view the publics well being as of the highest importance. So all of the factors above and more resulted in one of the worst engineering disasters that has ever taken place and all of these factors could have been prevented with wright mind…

David Kamien (2012) describes natural disasters as events that are a direct result from the Earth; to include floods, earthquakes, tornados, hurricanes, viruses, and volcanoes. The example of a natural disaster chosen to be reviewed for this essay is earthquakes. The United States Geological Survey (2016), describes earthquakes as a direct result of stress associated with friction which then releases energy causing an earthquake. there have been two major earthquakes in the United States, the…

affect the workers. After Three Mile Island many new regulations and requirements began to be introduced to nuclear power plants, including better training and more safety precautions (World Nuclear Association). Chernobyl was a much more devastating disaster that resulted in the deaths of multiple plant workings. It was caused by inadequate training and a bad design of the reactor. In April of 1986 a steam explosion caused part of the reactor core to fly into the atmosphere releasing it across…

equipped with doors that opened inward. The resulting crush of people led to the crushing or suffocation deaths of 72 people (Daily Mining Gazette, 1982). The design of the egress system within this disaster led directly to the tragic outcome (Tubb & Meacham, 2007). It is important to know that this disaster happened more than ten years prior to the publication of the first model building code (the uniform building code) and at approximately the same time as the initial development of the…

The means of protection intended to provide prevention of the progression of severe accidents and mitigation of their consequences, were not able to restore reactor cooling and to maintain integrity of the containment. Functioning of all of the disaster containment components was predicated on available electrical power, an energy source almost certain to be compromised during a flooding event. The plant was built close to sea level and protection against flooding hazards was not sufficient, as…

Tsunami Many natural and manmade disasters happen every year. Some minor, others life changing. The life changing experiences have quite literally changed these people's lives. One of these many natural disasters had this effects on people… this was the 2011 tsunami in Japan. An earthquake in the area caused a hurricane to start. This hurricane quickly destroyed the cities in it’s way and killed 20,000 people in the process. The disaster had many effects on the people who were there firsthand…

Power Plant. The burst released a radioactive wave that was 400 times more concentrated than the Hiroshima nuclear bomb. To this day, those from the towns nearby and the surrounding area are suffering from the horrible after effects of the horrible disaster. Below are a few facts you might not have known about Chernobyl. 1. The explosion was caused by one of four reactors Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant had 6 reactors on site, but only 4 were completed. The 4th reactor was two years old and, on…

smallest error could lead to a disaster of unimaginable proportions. The events at Fukushima served as a reminder that when . The Fukushima Daiichi disaster will have lasting effects on the environment, and the public’s opinion of nuclear energy will ultimately decide the fate of the industry. The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant sits on the east coast of Japan in the Fukushima Prefecture. The plant has a total of 6 boiling water reactors, which were designed…

Preventive Measures in the 2011 Japanese Earthquake Disaster Summary The 2011 Japanese earthquake followed by the triggered tsunami and nuclear disaster caused severe damage to the country. The three major events cost billions of dollars of damage and the earthquake, rated 9 on the moment magnitude scale, is the largest to ever hit Japan and the fourth largest in the world; more than 10,000 of its people lost their lives. For such an earthquake and tsunami prone country, it was a devastating…