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    high speeds, the brittle fracture caused plastic deformation. The reasons of plastic deformation include low temperature, poor properties of the hull steel, and high sulphur content of the material. When the Titanic disaster happened, each of these three factors was present: The water temperature was very low, the Titanic was travelling at a high speed and collided with the iceberg, and the hull steel contained high levels of Sulphur. The Hull Steel: After collecting the piece of hull steel, the…

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    the reactors. The reactors were so damaged that they were impossible to restart. The source of the earthquake was approximately 43 miles east of the Oshika Peninsula. The earthquake was so severe it is now known as the Great East Japan Earthquake, which also triggered tsunami, waves that reached as high as 133 feet and when they hit shore, they traveled 6 miles inland. The earthquake alone caused tsunami waves, flooding, landslides, fires, building damage and a nuclear…

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    The Seveso fiasco was a mechanical mishap that happened around 12:37 pm July 10, 1976, in a little synthetic assembling plant roughly 25 km north of Milan, in the Lombardy locale in Italy. It brought about the most astounding known introduction of a private populace. Investigations of coming about wellbeing impacts affirm the fundamental wellbeing impact to have been the skin condition chlorine. Concentrates likewise attract conceivable connects to neuropathy, liver capacity, cardiovascular and…

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    in a (Naoto Kan, 2013) “meltdown and melt through” in Reactor Unit 1 from the hydrogen explosions in Unit 1,2 and 3. Unit 4 also suffered a hydrogen explosion (without meltdown). As a result, (Iaea.org, 2011) the disaster received a level 7 INES accident rating from IAEA, the highest in the entire world along with the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. Therefore, it is apparent that the consequence would be on a large scale. The Fukushima Daiichi disaster had both immediate and long-term costs and…

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    nuclear waste transfers high temperature and radiation to the area it’s being produced in, and they are both absolutely damaging to the environment and the living plants and animals that live there. Nuclear Accidents is another large issue with using uranium as an energy source. Many accidents weren’t sensed before it happened. If it has happened many times before, what…

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    During the early 20th century building airships became very popular, and Germany quickly became the most developed and impressive builders of this type of lighter-than-air innovation. A German businessman, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin was one of the leading inventors who build many experimental dirigibles. The Hindenburg was one of Zeppelin and Ludwig Dürr’s most successful airship. By 1936, the Hindenburg had concluded ten very successful trips which made it very popular and well known.…

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    Chernobyl

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    This led to debris filling the atmosphere, and nuclear radiation spreading across Europe, killing a mass amount of people. Most people would assume the incident was just a fatal accident, but this was caused by their government. Not only did ignorance of safety led to this deadly disaster, but the “Soviet authorities did not want to acknowledge the problems to the local residents” (Gable, 1). Additionally, several thousands of people…

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    Fukushima Nuclear Crisis

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    This natural disaster left Japan with a number of negative long-lasting consequences - claiming thousands of lives, demolishing hundreds of villages and completely destroying the nuclear power station which led to a serious nuclear and radiation accident. The Fukushima nuclear disaster did raise either the risk of leukemia or the level of radioactivity in soil, water,... Even until now, everything here still has never been able to be the same as before. Accordingly, it is really easy to…

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    General Electric and maintained by the Tokyo Electric Power Company. Fukushima Dai’ichi lies about 140 miles northeast of Tokyo, Japan directly on the Pacific Ocean. At 1446 hrs (local JST) on Friday March 11, 2011, a Magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck 43 miles east of Sendai, Japan, (or about 65 miles northeast of Fukushima Dai’ichi) centered in the Pacific Ocean with a depth of about 19 miles. Names the Great East Japan Earthquake, it was the most powerful recorded earthquake ever to strike…

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    Hello name’s Cameron, Cameron sydnor and I used to work at a nuclear facility . The chernobyl nuclear disaster was a terrible event, yet very few people actually know the backstory of the plant. Despite the story being fairly interesting. For example did you before the meltdown the leader of the facility once said “the chance of a full scale meltdown is one in a million” clearly this man cannot see the future or else he would have said (scream this) “OH NO THE PLANT IS GOING DOWN WE ARE ALL…

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