Radioactive contamination

Silkwood Patti Maisner Kaplan University Introduction Karen Silkwood, in her twenty’s, worked for Kerr-McGee Corporation in the state of Oklahoma in the field of metallurgy. She worked with plutonium (a radioactive metal) at her job and noticed after a time of employment, that things were not being correctly, in terms of protecting the workers. She tried to change and implement safety procedures to ensure worker protection, but instead was seen as a ‘whistle blower’. Because…

B. We were raising awareness for soil pollution throughout the world. Soil pollution is the contamination of soil with harmful substances that can adversely the health or the soil and the health of those living on it. C. Industrial activity has been the biggest contributor of soil pollution. Since the amount of mining and manufacturing have significantly increased, most industries are dependant on extracting minerals from the Earth. This is industrial activity. Whether it is iron ore or coal,…

In today’s world there are many things that can damage the plant growth process. These things are called pollutants and they have many different forms. Pollutants can come from the exhaust, that gets release into the atmosphere from cars and it can eventually turn into acid rain or pollutants can come from oil spills and pollute the water. Road salt that is used to prevent icy roads can have harmful affects on plant growth. All of these factors and more can have their own affect and each could…

It was discovered that the thyroid glands of rabbits accrued radioactive iodine after the testing of nuclear weapons. This was a huge problem because the Western Shoshone and Southern Paiute families ate several rabbits a week, including the thyroids of these rabbits. children in Duckwater, Nevada, were believed to…

Either through having soldiers being at the actual test sites when the bombs were detonated or having them complete military exercises afterwards or getting the site ready for the next weapons test. Having soldiers move around radioactive material, living on bases nearby radioactive material, getting unknowingly bombarded by radiation to see its effects on the human body. How governments cover up the effects, the correlation between the weapons testing and veterans succumbing to sickness and…

radiation, and completed most of the pioneering work on nuclear changes. Marie Curie discovered that radiation was related to the amount of radioactive element that is present, she also discovered that radiation was a property of atoms. Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first person to win 2. In 1927, Herman Blumgart uses a radioactive tracer (nuclear medicine) to diagnose heart disease. In 1938, two German scientists, named Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman, had demonstrated…

Soil contamination is responsible for harm caused to the natural habitat of animals and deforestation. The littering of the products that men use every day is often seen on the side of the road as well as illegal dumping of trash in natural habitats. Another significant…

A project must be considered by senior management in order to justify the setup of a proper organization unit for proper management and to make organization different from other normal structure. The business objectives for this project are development of project, management and increasing the capacity of project with right decision. This case study will identify different challenges and show its effects to this business and some solution to manage challenges. The solution will help in managing…

http://The article “Switchgrass naturally removes toxic PCB pollution from soil,” talks about how switchgrass can help the toxic levels of Polychlorinated biphenyls also known as PBCs. This chemical was used widespread by many industrial factories and was banned by Congress in 1979, but it still lingers in soil severely in some parts of the United States to this day andvery toxic to living creatures. Researchers have found that when swithcgrass is paired with a PCB-oxidizing microorganism also…

rare. They wanted further and deeper examinations being done on the land near the Santa Susana Field Laboratory located in the hills above Simi Valley and the San Fernando Valley. This site had a partial nuclear meltdown in 1959 and the amount of radioactive substances that were released into the land and air were unknown. The site has not been cleaned up and the longer it takes to get cleaned up the more harm it causes the residents living…