Nuclear medicine

Nuclear power makes up about 20% of the United States Electricity. Nuclear power wasn’t used until 1953. The idea came from World War II which used nuclear fission. Nuclear power is made by water being heated to create steam and that creates the power to split uranium atoms also using nuclear fission. Nuclear power has its advantages and also has it disadvantages but one in particular is dangerous. In March 2011 tragic struck Japan when a few reactors had become unstable and exploded. This being…

hundred and sixty one billion dollars on nuclear weapons over the next decade (PloughShares). The start of nuclear weaponry began when the test bomb, Gadget, was detonated on July 16, 1945 in Alamogordo, New Mexico. The Manhattan Project was a secret operation which the United States perfected the atomic bomb. Many people did not know about the Manhattan Project at the time, but once they found out they thought it was too dangerous because it involved nuclear weapons. Though many people think…

Nuclear energy plays an important in the medical field. Nuclear energy in medicine has been discovered more than 50 years ago and it has been widely-used ever since. The first use of nuclear energy in the medical field is for medical imaging which is a way of creating visual representation of what is going on in our body. Medical imaging began when Wilhem Rontgen discovered x-ray in 1895. However, at that time, the dangers of radiation was not known yet. Fast forward about 20 years later,…

The abundant affects nuclear science has had on society as whole and in our everyday lives are the result of the first ever “controlled” nuclear chain reaction test held in an old squash court beneath Stagg Field at the University of Chicago in Chicago IL. Led by Enrico Fermi an Italian Physicist, the event took place on December 2nd 1942 in a small reactor called the Chicago Pile-1 which Mr. Fermi and his team of scientist created. The Chicago Pile-1 was interracial part of a secret initiative…

When people hear the word nuclear, most will think of complete destruction and radiation poisoning. These people are partially correct; the first public appearance of nuclear technology was the Atomic Bomb at the tail end of World War Two, ending the war with its annihilating capabilities (Nash). Since 1945, this technology has been harnessed by scientists and engineers globally, especially in America. Through advancing the medical field, upgrading industry in the country, and by ensuring…

For my topic I choose to do nuclear power plants and according to the European Nuclear Society their definition of a nuclear power plant is “thermal power plant, primarily used for electricity generation, in which the nuclear binding energy released during the nuclear fission in a reactor is converted to heat and subsequently into electrical energy via a water-steam circuit using a turbine and generator”. Nuclear power plants operate in most states and can produce up to 20 percent of the…

The Manhattan Project: the nuclear race that changed the world The Manhattan Project was a research project that began in 1942 with the goal of building the world’s first atomic bomb. The project pushed limits and ethics on an international scale in a race to develop a nuclear war weapon, a new concept of the time. With world war two dawning on America and the intelligence that the Nazis were attempting to build a bomb, the United States took action by beginning the project. Competition between…

element is equivalent to 15,000 tons of TNT (“How Do Nuclear Weapons Work?”). The other material that is available to use is Plutonium-239. The Nagasaki bomb used this type of material which generated a destructive energy equivalent to 21,000 tons of TNT. Those two materials was selected because both of them have an unstable isotope which make them have a high radioactivity level.…

tremendous contribution to modern medicine, who has been printed on the 1000¥ banknotes since 2004) and the Tsuruga castle are both important cultural heritages. That is why the prefecture was one of the favourite destinations for domestic tourism. Background Japan was hit by the biggest natural disaster in its history on Friday 11 Match 2011. The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power…

The journey to becoming a competent nuclear medicine technologist takes you through many stages, is very challenging, but extremely rewarding. The program at SAIT consists of 10 months of learning the theory/skills/principles for the profession and developing our confidence and knowledge. The CAMRT and ACMDTT has procedures and protocols that are mandatory for SAIT to use as guidelines to ensure that the students are progressing into competent technologists in order for them to gain…