Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant

The tsunami overtook the buildings of Fukushima Daiichi, a nuclear power plant company. Electricity and the emergency generator were shut off immediately. Three reactors shut down completely and were destroyed. When the reactors shut down the plant went into meltdown stage, causing the reactors to overheat due to the loss of water. Due to the owner of the plant taking these events lightly an explosion occurred. Japan is still struggling today due to radioactive…

Koffler is an example of a bad building to choose for a safe house during a zombie apocalypse. Although the building is sufficiently tall (5 stories), allowing refugees to stay far away from the zombies, this building contains many labs that various science classes use. One of the classes that use this building for labs is the chemistry department. This poses many different obstacles. Due to the amount of scientific experiments that go on in this building, there are many different chemicals,…

Two Tips To Troubleshoot A Thermostat Your home’s thermostat is an essential piece of hardware that helps control your furnace. If the device stops working, it can leave your furnace without any way to know when it needs to turn on and off. Thankfully, thermostats are easy to troubleshoot, and are an inexpensive fix if you determine they are the problem. Here are two problems that you can troubleshoot on your own. Furnace Not Cycling Is the temperature in your home colder than your threshold…

Introduction: This was an unannounced office safety inspection of this analytical x-ray registrant, which is located at 1927 Commercial drive, Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. The registrant owns and operates one x-ray fluorescence (XRF) analytical x-ray unit, Thermo Fisher Scientific, model XL3t 980, serial numbers 92731, which is routinely utilized to perform alloy analysis of metals. This is the first inspection of the facility. One area of concern was revealed during the…

Narrowing Down A roofing Material? Why Choose Metal Have you ever looked around your neighborhood to see what kind of roofs are out there? While asphalt shingles are most likely dominating the neighborhood, you may see a few metal roofs out there. Metal can be a viable alternative to traditional shingles for the following reasons, so do not count it out so soon when narrowing down a roofing material. Life Expectancy The longevity of a roof will depend on several factors, such as the home’s…

Is the environmental impact of lithium ion batteries worth the gain that we recieve from them as energy storage devices. This issue includes the impacts of mining, producing and dumping of the product which includes the mining of metals like nickel, cobalt and lithium. Batteries are often dumped in landfills and not recycled, recycling batteries can greatly reduce the environmental impact in most cases. The mining of lithium has a negative impact on the environment it is found in and so if there…

Match 2011. The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power…

A large detention pond and a water treatment plant are nearby. The community also has several bus stops, a park, a shopping center and a hospital in the vicinity. In my opinion some of this places are close but they are not close enough for a senior citizen community I’m assuming the residents don’t…

Uranium is the element that I chose to write about. Uranium is a element that is a naturally radioactive element that comes in a silverish metal when it’s pure. Uranium quickly oxidizes in air and it can be used to color glass that glows greenish - yellow under a blacklight. Uranium is one of the key ingredients in atomic bombs. Only 1.38% of the uranium in the bomb “Little Boy” detonated over Hiroshima underwent fission and there was 140 pounds of Uranium in total. Uranium is an element that…

I found four Perytons when I searched for non-repetitive, dispersed radio bursts in the archival Parkes Multibeam Pulsar Survey. The motivation was to understand this population better, including “Rotating Radio Transients” (RRATs), “Fast Radio Bursts” (FRBs) and “Perytons”. RRATs are radio pulsars which can be detected in single-pulse searches more easily than periodicity searches. It is now believed that these are extreme examples of the radio pulsar population, and their pulsed emissions are…