Disasters

The Deepwater Horizon disaster could have possibly been prevented if the crew would have made better decisions on that day in April. The crew neglected to acknowledge the anomalies present and the warning signs that the well was unstable. If evidence-based decision-making would have taking place on this day this disaster that killed 11 people may have been avoided. Evidence-based decision-making or (EBDM) is defined as a process of conscientiously using the best available data and evidence…

Dangers of Radiation. Soldiers have been put in danger throughout recent history due to negligence with nuclear material and weapons testing. Either through having soldiers being at the actual test sites when the bombs were detonated or having them complete military exercises afterwards or getting the site ready for the next weapons test. Having soldiers move around radioactive material, living on bases nearby radioactive material, getting unknowingly bombarded by radiation to see its effects…

Nuclear power plants have increased over the United States since the 1940s. In the states, there are 99 nuclear power plants. With all these plants, nearly three million Americans live within 10 miles of one. Citizens of Yankton live fairly close to a nuclear power plant which is Pathfinder Nuclear Generating Station located near the city of Sioux Falls. During the 1960, Sioux Falls was a hub of industry and productivity in South Dakota at the time. This made Sioux Falls the ideal place for…

Nuclear Waste in Mississippi (Milestone 2) Elizabeth Pritchard SCI 333 Professor Kimberly Schulte July 10, 2016 Product Need Nuclear waste and radioactive waste in general are ongoing issues. When the nuclear power and radioactive materials that we use today were created and initially used many years ago, scientists were not concerned with the disposal methods as much as they are today because of the fact that they would not have worry about that any time soon after the…

Understanding: Summary of The Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster (UBBM) On April 5, 2010, a detonation ripped through the Upper Big Branch Mine sited in southern West Virginia. The mine was under the supervision of UBBM energy subsidiary coal business. In the light of the explosion, mine rescue measures started without delay. As a result, salvagers have recovered twenty-five bodies and could not uncover the rest of the workers because of the quantity of cinder and wreckage. In like manner, the…

The Shuttle Challenger Disaster of 1986 The Disaster of the Space Challenger not only affected the way NASA checked their space shuttle and produced them but it also changed the way that they were viewed. Despite the disaster, NASA has gone through positive changes still to this day. These positive changes such as the way they are viewed by Americans as a whole and also being able to make technological advances to improve space missions. The Challenger was expected to explore into space on…

The Greatest Illusion – The Biggest Disaster Jacob Jankowski was just a young boy who was about to emark on the world as a Cornell graduate of verternary medicine. Unaware what the future would hold as he learns about the death of his parents, and life during the great depresion The Great Depresion Twelve million people out of work; twelve thousand people being made unemployed every day; twenty thousand companies gone bankrupt; one thousand sixteen banks – bankrupt; one in twenty farmers,…

having a plan of action in a time of need. It’s all about being ready for a disaster than not be ready for one. If a disaster occurs mitigation is about having all resources applicable for the citizens of America. Mitigation is not one plan fits all hazards it’s a lengthy and costly process. 2. What are the goals and objectives of mitigation? The goals and objectives mainly deal with recovery. Mitigation is a disaster plan provides more substantial funding for recovery efforts. Mitigation…

A little over ten years after the disaster of the Challenger, huge pieces of the Challenger shuttle washed up on a beach on the coast in California. NASA again regained its strength and launched the Discovery many years after the Challenger. Many design changes had been made to the Discovery to prevent another disaster from happening again. The back up teacher for Christa McAuliffe went up into space and had full training, so…

uncertain, volatile, complex, and ambiguous environment. This paper speaks to managing change, resistance, and sustaining change as well as relating these different aspects of change back to the case study “The Challenger and Columbia Shuttle Disasters”.…