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    So, when someone thinks of nukes, one may think of explosions. If one may play Fallout one has to know what radiation is. It is very dangerous and can easily kill anyone. However, it is related to the job of a nuclear engineer. These people work very hard day and night to give power to everything in the world and keep humans from going extinct because of toxic gases. What one needs to do to become a worker in this field is have good grades (A/B average) in math, science and maybe have an…

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    Sander Lush Proodian Chemistry P.4 Nuclear Sustainability Atoms are tiny particles that make up every object in the universe. Nuclear energy is the “life force” in the nucleus of an atom. There is powerful energy present in the bonds that hold the nucleus together, and this “nuclear energy” can be used to make electricity; however, that energy must first be released from atoms through nuclear fission. In a nuclear power plant, nuclear fission – the process of splitting highly-reactive…

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    renewable energy implementation is essential around the world to ensure a sustainable worldwide community and healthy environment. Each and every day more CO2 is wildly thrown into the air by common energy producing practices such as coal burning and nuclear reactors. These practices are reckless and are absolutely detrimental to the surrounding ecosystem and even ecosystems hundreds of miles away. Implementation of wind energy as the major player of the energy sector will cut carbon emissions…

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    Nuclear weapons cause mass destruction, so why would they make the world a safer place? When a nuclear weapon is detonated the land around the explosion becomes unliveable due to radiation, not to mention all the buildings it demolishes. The following report will cover the creation of the bombs, their effects, who has them, if the technology is safe and if they should have ever been used. All of these topics have been researched using multiple different sources and websites to prove how accurate…

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    of war” (Frank 85). She referred to the children and how the adults have tried to prepare them for war and what comes after it, but it can have a much deeper meaning than described. A society and nation could prepare for the beginning and end of a nuclear war by collecting a surplus of food and supplies. When the bombs really drop and things become more real than what people would realize will then show if a society of people can live through a war. From the quote, the…

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    however. Unfortunately, America could not simply walk out of the war, for to Japan, it was not over, and they would continue to launch attacks. They could not come to terms of peace with Japan because of their resistance to the very end, and so the nuclear weapon…

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    become more sophisticated throughout the ages. They would start as simple as just charging into a field of chaos, to the use of corps; organized groups of soldiers based on their training and equipment. to the later on horrors of trench warfare and nuclear bombardment. Each age of warfare had their own individual tactics that would be useful for the technology that the specific eras had. some of the most brilliant tactics of their ages would include such tactics as the phalanx, guerrilla tactics…

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    On April 26, 1986 in Pripyat, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union, a failure in emergency shutdown procedures caused an eruption of Chernobyl’s fourth reactor. The nuclear explosion caused the initial death of a single person, but many later would die of the particles put into the atmosphere early that morning. Since Chernobyl was a nuclear plant, radioactive materials were dispersed into the air. Some of the products are very lethal, some are not, but they still affect the world even today. The…

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    Bethesda Softworks, a subsidiary of ZeniMax Media company, released their video game Fallout 4 in November 2015 resulting in over $750 million of sales within days of its release (Bethesda Softworks, 2015). The title is the latest installment of their successful anthology that explores an alternate reality where humans commercialized nuclear technology ushering in an atomic age. The player, cryogenically frozen in a fallout shelter as bombs drop on the United States, awakens 200 years later to a…

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    The United States of America dropping the atomic bombs on Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6th and August 9th, 1945, was a very controversial decision and the opinions as to if the attacks were justified or not differ between those living in Japan and the U.S. The U.S’s act of dropping the atomic bombs was not justified because the long lasting health effects the bombings had on the population was disastrous, Japan’s army was inevitably facing defeat, and the mass destruction…

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