Radioactive contamination

environment becomes harmful or unfit for living things. Various types of pollution exist, including water, air, personal, noise, light, radioactive, thermal, visual and soil. Human beings are involved in different daily activities that contribute to the contamination of the environment leading to the different types of pollution. For example air pollution refers to the contamination of air, which results in health effects in both humans and animals. The purpose of this paper is to make an…

M., Cummings, C., Yu, L., Wang, Z., Zink, D., Ng, Z., Loo, S. and Ng, K., 2015. The multi-facets of sustainable nanotechnology – Lessons from a nanosafety symposium. Nanotoxicology, 9(3), pp.404-406. Li, Y. and Boraschi, D., 2016. Endotoxin contamination: a key element in the interpretation of nanosafety studies. Nanomedicine, 11(3), pp.269-287. Oberdörster, G., Oberdörster, E. and Oberdörster, J., 2005. Nanotoxicology: An Emerging Discipline Evolving from Studies of Ultrafine Particles.…

thorium for the many future generations as the foundation to create nuclear energy. Also, there 's really not much waste: the US disposes of 1000 times more EPA-registered hazardous waste materials (e.g., mercury, benzene, coal ash, etc.), than radioactive waste. Waste can be safely stored in rock tunnels like Yucca, salt caverns like New Mexico, or deep boreholes, and new reactor designs can reduce the amount of waste that is produced. Lastly, nuclear weapons are derived from purpose-built…

clarification and important facts of the consequences. The accident that occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine (1986) is in fact the only accident in the history of nuclear power plant failures to cause extreme fatalities from contamination. Approximately twenty- eight staff and emergency workers died due to the exposure of radiation and thermal burns within four months of the disaster. It is believed that the accident was responsible for nearly 7000 cases of thyroid cancer.…

Lynas Malaysia Sdn Bhd is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lynas accountable for the development of the company’s rare earths processing plant at the Teluk Kalong industrial park, in Kemaman on the east coast of Malaysia. The Malaysian Minister of Finance has approved the project with special tax incentives to Lynas for operating a rare earth deposits plant in Malaysia (Lynas Corporation Ltd, 2007). Some of the tax incentives include a pioneer status secured for the Kemamam Rare Earths Processing…

weapons to the requirements of both jus ad bellum and jus in bello is that nuclear weapons do not accomplish with the main purpose of Just War Tradition, which is preventing and saving innocent lives. The long-term dangers of radioactive fallout and environmental contamination potentially affect innocent people, allies, enemies, or even one’s own population. Hence, since the side effects of nuclear weapons can’t be measure or controlled, can’t be ever justifiable. The psychologist Eric Fromm…

Contents: Introduction-Page 2 Review of Literature- Page 3 Presenting of findings- Page 4 Processing of findings- Page 5 Conclusion- Page 8 Reference list- Page 8 Appendix-Page 9 The research that I have conducted on acid mine drainage (to be referred to as AMD throughout the contents) has been to investigate the effects of AMD on the environment with a more definite focus on the effects that AMD has on plant life. The aim of this research is to determine the impact that AMD has on the…

within this group have a biological role, but arsenic itself is a toxin (see section 1.x). Some additional chemical properties of elemental arsenic are shown in table_1. Elementary Arsenic Elementary arsenic has only one stable isotope 75As, and 33 radioactive isotopes. Generally, the isotopes are relatively short lived with the longest lived radioisotope (73As) having a half-life of 80.3…

The Honorable Andrew M. Cuomo Governor of New York State NYS State Capitol Building Albany, NY 12224 September 30 2015 Dear Mr. Cuomo, I know that you have been bombarded time and time again about whether or not to allow hydro fracking in the Marcellus shale in the state of New York. Although a member on the board of a company with hydrofracking skills, I am split with the idea of hydro fracking. Both sides’ present solidifying arguments and I clearly understand the advantages and…

pollution depending on the pollutants sources of their origin. These are as follow: 1. Groundwater pollution: Groundwater refers to water stored under earth’s surface and sources of this water are rain, hail, snow etc. The sources of groundwater contamination could be natural or man-made. Groundwater pollution occurs due to recycling of industrial waste without proper treatment and leaching of toxic chemical (fertilizers and pesticides) below soil surface from agriculture fields. Groundwater…