Nuclear fission

environmental disasters in world history happened on March 11, 2011. The site was the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan. A 9.0 magnitude earthquake was experienced off the northeastern coast of Japan, and this triggered tsunamis that affected shorelines within minutes. Dozens of villages alongside 200 miles of coastline were substantially destroyed. Waves measuring more than 40 feet struck the Fukushima nuclear power plant, located only 150 miles from Tokyo. The plant’s emergency…

How threatening it might sound, nuclear medicine is a very common type of treatment, as “On average, one in every two Australians can expect at some stage of his or her life to undergo a nuclear medicine procedure,” (Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization). It may come as a surprise, but these include Nuclear Imaging such as MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging), Pet scans, CT (Computerized Tomography) CAT (Computerized Axial Tomography). And no it is not A green liquid in a capsule…

dangerous field. With these examples, nuclear science began to form with rules, and values that are considered mandatory for the scientists, these are also moral and private principles cannot be violated for the progress of science and knowledge.…

shocked the world is known as the Tohoku Pacific Coast Earthquake and formally known as the ‘Higashi Nihon Daishinsai’ (the Great Eastern Japan Disasters). From a magnitude 9.0 undersea earthquake, to a 15-meter tsunami which ultimately resulted to a nuclear…

Critical Evaluation of Szilard’s Petition The use of nuclear weapons on Japan in 1945 was not a popular decision amongst experienced scientists. A Petition to the President of the United States by Leo Szilard and Cosigners in 1945 was a plea to the president from experienced scientists who not only assisted in developing the atomic bomb but they wished for other options instead of using it. The approach of this appeal to the president deemed it unsuccessful and the bombs were utilized without…

I believe that Three Mile Island needs to stay open. Nuclear Power Opinion Paper-Three Mile Island: Rough Copy Three Mile Island (TMI) is a nuclear power plant located in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, running since 1974. In 2019, the Exelon Corporation plans to shut down Three Mile Island, an essential role in the economy that produces a large amount of Pennsylvania's electricity. This is because because they haven’t been profitable for the past 5 years, and have lost more than $300…

In this project we constructed an apparatus that would allow an egg to descend from a two story window without breaking. The egg ended up cracking on impact due to our miscalculations. We could have prevented this by studying Newton's Three Laws of Motion and conservation of energy before we attempted the drop. We created our apparatus by inserting an egg into two cups connected together. We included steel wool and cotton in the two cup to absorb some of the impact. Secondly, we wrapped the two…

39, ‘Safe Handling of Plutonium’ ( IAEA, 1998). Plutonium is a man-made radioactive element that is made from uranium in nuclear reactors (Environmental Protection Agency, 2014). Much of the plutonium made was to be used for nuclear war. When plutonium decays it releases radiation. So do the other forms of isotopes. The half-live of these radioactive metals is anywhere from 87.7 to 6,560 years long (Environmental Protection…

World May Turn to Nuclear Power” is a passage that lays out all of the main components of Nuclear energy. It is filled with statistics and real world examples, including visual aids. The major purpose of this text is to inform the reader that nuclear power is in fact a beneficial form of energy. Three images on page 18 show nuclear power in action. The bottom right picture illustrates a woman repowering her Nissan LEAF car with the help of nuclear energy. The authors tell us that nuclear power…

• My topic is nuclear energy and my proposal is that the Unites States should utilize nuclear energy as the nation’s main power source. My research goals include finding statistics of refueling cycles and the reliability of nuclear, coal and gas power plants. In addition, I plan on finding what nuclear energy is and how it is produced. Furthermore, I need to understand the cost of building and running nuclear, coal and gas plants annually. The most important research goal is to find…