Thorium

We know that radiation is harmful to us, even the sun’s UV waves are know to cause skin cancer. Than why, you may ask, do you think radiation is so good for us when it is so bad for our health? Well, for starters the two biggest types of power right now are Nuclear and Coal. If you have been keeping up with the environmental status coal is not helping the climate. People want to enjoy technology, but that costs power, which comes from coal. How do we balance these two, protecting the…

His contributions came along around 1898. Throughout his lifetime, he constantly studied the radiations that were being emitted from the elements Uranium and Thorium, which he named. Rutherford discovered the counterpart of the electron. He discovered a positively charged subatomic particle known as the proton. Ernest was the first of the scientists to reference or hypothesize of a neutrally charged particle located…

Overview A 9.0 magnitude earthquake began on March 11th, 2011 at 2:46 PM and lasted 3 minutes (World Nuclear Association, 2016). The earthquake was centered 130 km off the shore of Sendai Myagi on the east coast of Honshu Island. Consequentially, the island to move four meters to the east and surrounding coastlines were subsided by up to one meter. The earthquake also created a tsunami reaching as high as 40 meters. At the time of the earthquake, there were 11 nuclear reactors operating in the…

torbernite was twice as active than uranium she believed that these minerals contained a substance much more active than uranium alone. This led her on a meticulous and refined search for other radioactive elements, in this search, she deduced that thorium was also…

How fear of nuclear power is hurting the environment, is a title that would spike anyone’s curiosity. In 13 minutes and 58 seconds, Michael Shellenberger crafts an argument about how the fear of nuclear energy is unfounded and nuclear energy should be the go to clean energy of the world. Shellenberger starts off his TED talk by claiming to viewers that we are in the middle of a clean energy revolution. He backs this up through empirical evidence in his home state of California and through the…

Climate change and pollution are serious global issues. Recently, cities such as New Delhi and Beijing have been plagued by unprecedented levels of smog, leading to riots and unrest. Greenhouse gases have greatly increased the temperature of our atmosphere and are upsetting the Earth’s fragile balance as an ecosystem. Consequently, in 2016, the arctic ice sheet was the smallest ever recorded, but most worryingly, according to NASA, the past 13 years have had the 13 smallest ice sheets on record…

Despite being a relatively new source of energy, nuclear energy has emerged as one of the most influential energy sources. Nuclear power was developed in the 1950s after several years of intensive research on atoms, uranium, and radioactivity (Ferguson, 22). Initially, nuclear energy was mainly applied in the military field through the production of destructive weapons such as bombs. However, as years progressed, it became an essential component of industrial production. Nuclear energy is…

The rise of nuclear power started back in 2000 with the election of George W. Bush; it was with him that the development of nuclear power plants started to form in the United States. One of the countries that turned to nuclear energy was India, but it wasn’t until 2005 with the Nuclear Treaty, that it actually came into the picture and developed their Nuclear Sector. Then in 2010 India’s government passed the Civil Nuclear Liability for Damage Act, which dealt with any nuclear damages that…

In the next 35 years, global electricity demand is estimated to have increased by a factor of 2.5, and at the same time the world faces environmental threats caused by polluting emissions. Nuclear energy presents the opportunity to meet a great deal of the predicted increase in electricity demand, in combination with a reduction of the polluting emissions (Salvatores 1). The use of these nuclear plants rests with the people if we look back at why production of these plants stopped the people had…

Introduction In our society, people may think Mars would be easier to understand. Similiar to Earth, Mars may has ice and water in its atmosphere, different wheather in seasonal, and other recognizable features. However, conditions on Mars vary wildly from what people know on our own planet.Solar system has influenced numerous cultures effecting legends, religious beliefs and at the beginning of the 21st century. Mars Odyssey have long been achieved which is a part of Mars Exploration…