Radioactive contamination

Ernest Umandap Ms. Matteson ENGL-1302.02 12 February 2018 A Close Inspection of Rachel Carson’s Report: The use of chemicals as pesticides was not as prominent as it was in the 1960s when it was diligently sprayed by civilians in almost everything. From crops to insects to birds, everything was contaminated with chemicals such as DDT. One certain marine biologist and writer, Rachel Carson, decided to reveal the heavy truth about the effects of chemicals in her book: The Silent Spring (in…

harmless. The article was published on November 11 2014. In this article, they talked about a couple of different things. One of the topics they talked about was the Fukushima nuclear disaster that occurred in 2011, and how the radioactive contamination has slowly started to approach the coast of California. The radiation levels were looked over by researches and found out that the radiation does not pose a risk to the people living on the coast. The article as talked about the…

Noted in supreme court cases, Relf v. Weinberger and Buck v. Bell, re-examining compulsory sterilization is pivotal in dismantling discrimination against women. Particularly affecting women of color, the multi-form occurrence is slowly moving into public consciousness along with the effects of settler colonialism. Depopulating foreign land through strategic movements, settler colonialists have been and continue to be clever as far as their tactics to establish political systems. Purposed to…

to kill cancerous tissues, reduce the size of a tumor, or reduce pain. For example, “radioactive iodine (specifically iodine 131) is frequently used to treat thyroid cancer, a disease that strikes about 11,000 Americans every day.”("Uses of Radiation."). Radiation is also used for the sterilization of medical instruments. By subjecting them to beams of concentrated radiation, micrograms that cause contamination and disease can be killed. “Because this is done with high energy radiation sources…

Solar vs. Nuclear (Title Undecided) Electricity. Its what drives modern society. While such a statement may seem a whole lot to swallow, we subconsciously realize that our lights, this computer you are using right now, cell phones, and just about everything else run on electricity. So where does electricity come from? Currently, the majority of our electricity is made by extracting finite materials, putting them through combustive processes, and wastefully generating this bounty…

Fracking has large impact on daily life for global consumers, it effects prices and availability of fuels for consumers. Fracking is an exceptionally complicated process. To start the process, a ten thousand foot well is drilled below the surface into shale layers. Next, 1 to 8 million gallons of water mixed with chemicals are injected into the well at extremely high pressures to crack the rock. This will allow the product to flow out once the water is mostly removed. This process is highly…

suggest otherwise. The lack of transparency between government and plant employee resulted in confusion with safety protocols, leading to lose of controls causing the ‘unforeseen’ meltdown and destruction of the reactor with the widespread release of radioactive matter. Under the Kremlin’s intense Russification program, Ukraine was urbanized by the subtle loss of culture and history and language was marginalized. Lack of interest in information based on background regarding the problems of the…

power often falls under fire because of the many disadvantages it brings. After the uranium splits to generate heat, the resulting byproducts are radioactive, which means they need to be removed in a safe way. Even though power plants have undergone recycling efforts of this waste product in recent years, storing the byproduct can lead to contamination through various containment failures. Uranium is currently the sole raw material for generating nuclear energy. Nuclear power is a limited…

In part 4 through 8 of the book Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner? by Katrine Marcal the possibility of "Financial Man" is assessed. He is contrasted with men and ladies in reality and in a few situations, and the contrasts between Economic Man and regular individuals are shown. In chapter 4 of the book Marcal discusses how the British financial analyst, John Maynard Keynes, anticipated that the world's monetary issues would be tackled with the correct contributing after some time, and we would…

is found in all living things and is the building block for organic material, there is carbon 12, 13 and 14 and they all have different properties. This isotope was discovered on February 27, 1940 by Martin Karmen and Sam Ruben and is the most radioactive out of all carbon isotopes. The relative abundance of it is >0.1% (trace amount) and its relative mass is 14.003241. It has 6 protons and 8 neutrons. This particular isotope is found in all carbon containing substances however it is very…