Hillsborough Disaster

services need by the community. Maintaining and updating Disaster Recovery Plans (DRP), can decrease potential looses and increase business success during the recovery phase. Every year, thousands of businesses are affected during natural or men-made disasters, some of them never reopen due to the lack of resources and knowledge to sustain business operation during a disaster. Business owners have the obligation to create, implement and maintain Disaster recovery plans (DRP) in order to…

As well as modifications to the RBMK that were still operating, improvements in automatic shut-down and inspection equipment. These modifications are made to prevent another disaster like Chernobyl from happening in the future. In addition, in 1986 the Soviets begun constructing a sarcophagus to cover the reactor as a temporary fix and presently has new plans to construct a new safe shelter to last 100 years. Due to contamination…

seven decades. Although there was environmental participation by conservationist and preservationist activists prior to World War II, there was a proliferation of widespread activism during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s after a series of environmental disasters ignited concern, including increased habitat destruction, the 1969 Santa Barbara Oil Spill, and the exposure of dangerous pesticides by Rachel…

Engineering Disasters Engineers have opportunities and jobs like no other. Marvellous buildings and structures are completed, and new inventions are being created and implemented into society around the world, all thanks to engineers. However, not all of these inventions and structures are entirely perfect; in fact, some imperfect structures are more popular than the perfect ones because of the impact they have had on the people and areas around them. These famous imperfect structures are…

On March 11, 2011, a disaster took place in Fukushima, Japan. A magnitude of 9.0, an earthquake struck Tohoku, which resulted in a Tsunami. Due to a chain of disasters on this day, the Nuclear Power Plant in Fukushima had a malfunction. This is not the first time something like this so drastic happened in Japan. Chernobyl, the disaster in 1986 was the worst nuclear power plant accident in history. Although, Fukushima following the Chernobyl disaster was not as deadly, it not only affected people…

buildings and even changed the shape of the shoreline. The impacts of this devastating tsunami are still affecting the people who reside there. By implementing the five priorities in the Hyogo Framework for Action, people will be prepared when natural disaster strikes and hopefully the amount of devastation that occurred from this specific tsunami will not happen…

is in the past. Across from the empty chair is an American flag blowing in the wind. It is the spark of color that stands out amongst the rest of the picture which has a brown undertone. It represents that even after catastrophes such as natural disasters, society must stand proud and remain…

they both have the same classification, Chernobyl was far more grave. Georg Steinhauser and the Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences of Colorado State University state that the amount of radiation emitted during the Chernobyl disaster was “approximately four orders of magnitude higher” than that of Fukushima. Thus, demonstrating how severe Chernobyl was, for the accident was responsible for releasing more radiation than the deliberate dropping of a nuclear…

THE SEVESO DISASTER INTRO The Seveso Disaster was an environmental travesty that occurred on July 10th 1976 due to a chemical manufacturing plant, which released massive amounts of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) into the atmosphere (Lallanilla, 2017). This massive release caused not only environmental implications but health and safety implications as well. Through my research I will deduct what happened at that chemical plant outside of Seveso that caused such a disaster. Further…

Repercussions for engineers working for Union Carbide in Bhopal and consequences for Union Carbide following Bhopal disaster. In 3 December 1984 there was a gas tragedy in Bhopal, the capital of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. People around the city were in chaotic motion all trying to escape the toxic gas cloud that resulted from the gas leakage from the plant owned by the Union Carbide Corporation that its aim was to produce Methyl Isocyanate, toxic constituent of pesticide Sevin. It was…