Disaster

atmosphere, and nuclear radiation spreading across Europe, killing a mass amount of people. Most people would assume the incident was just a fatal accident, but this was caused by their government. Not only did ignorance of safety led to this deadly disaster, but the “Soviet authorities did not want to acknowledge the problems to the local residents” (Gable, 1). Additionally, several thousands of people from all over Europe were suffering from the government’s lack of help and aid, even though…

The disaster at Chernobyl was like a cannon shot heard across the world. On April 26th, 1986, the people living near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant were about to experience something no one had ever experienced before. One of the units at the power plant, unit four specifically, failed spectacularly. An uncontrolled reaction within the reactor ended up blowing the top off of the reactor and caused it to spew out great amount of nuclear material. The meltdown was then led by a fire. In total,…

Contingency strategy. This strategy has the goal to reduce the impact of the vulnerability exploitation by properly plan and prepare for it. As a part of contingency strategy organization has to prepare three types of plans: Incident Response Plan (IRP), Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP), and Business Continuity Plan (BCP). Incident Response Plan (IRP) consist of actions that takes place while the incident is still in progress. This is the immediate response, and is usually done as soon as the…

Chernobyl is a perfect example of the problems we face in our futures need for energy. National Geographic did a story on the wildlife of Chernobyl 30 years after the deadliest nuclear disaster in history in the article titled “Animals Rule Chernobyl 30 Years after Nuclear Disaster”. This article discusses the debate amid biologists regarding the number count and health of the animals within the exclusion zone of Chernobyl. Some researchers believe that the population levels of Chernobyl…

When natural disasters are referenced in pop culture, they rarely carry a connotation other than chaos and catastrophe. As soon as someone hears the term “natural disaster”, his mind quickly jumps to an impactful event that somehow represents sorrow, loss, and disorder. These connotative words are especially helpful to musicians who are struggling to find a universal, relatable way to communicate the feelings and emotions in their lives. For this reason, despite the fact that there have been…

the settlement between the government of India and Union Carbide prompted by a class-action lawsuit allowed victims and families to be compensated for the disaster. Union Carbide was under no obligation to understand or interfere with how the Indian government would distribute those…

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 disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in 2011 was one that should have never happened. Looking back, a perfect storm of old technology, damage from the tsunami, and system failures is to blame for the meltdown. Reactors 1-3, ones most affected, rode out the quake without serious damage. It was the tsunamis that fallowed that started the chain reaction. On March 11, 2011 at 2:46pm a 9.0 earthquake hit off shore northeast of Japan, it lasted about 6 minutes. As expected, the 11 reactors at…

began to fully emerge into modern society as of the 1950’s with the first power plant being built in Pennsylvania in 1954 (Lehr). Also during this time the USSR in Russia and eastern Europe began using nuclear power. Soon after followed a major disaster. In Ukraine on April 26, 1986 the reactor at…

The article, “What Every American Needs to Know about Puerto Rico’s Hurricane Disaster” by Brian Resnick and Eliza Barclay, is very informative of the natural disaster that is hurting our nation and everything we are and are not doing to help it. The hurricane caused a tremendous amount of chaos in Puerto Rico and we, as Americans, should find a way to help in this situation. Especially since Puerto Rico is considered a part of the United Staes and under our government. The President has already…