The Geological Impact of Nuclear Testing at the Nevada Test Site

15. On the right section of the graph paper (Peru-Chile Trench) create a scale for the horizonal axis (longitude) ranging from 61-71 °W. Going by intervals of 1°W, label the right end of the x-axis 61 and the left end of the x-axis 71.

realize that the plant was having an accident with the coolant level. The tubes holding the nuclear fuel began to melt since they became over heated which also caused fuel pellets to melt. Even though this was the most dangerous kind of nuclear accident, the radiation did not reach outside of the containment building nor did it release out into the environment. There were no immediate injuries or deaths reported from the raditation to the faculty workers.

Nevada is the 7th largest state in America, with a total square mileage of 110,572 miles (286,380 square kilometers). The width is currently 322 miles (519 kilometers), and the length is 492 miles (787 kilometers), which 0.72 of it is covered in water. Nevada lies in the southwest, Oregon northwest, Idaho northeast, Utah east, and Arizona which is southwest. The total population for Nevada, as of 2017, is approximately 2,995,973 people. The two most populated cities however, have approximately 534,847 people in Las Vegas and Henderson has approximately 224,829 people, as of 2004. Over the years, Nevada has been ranked as the 35th most populated state in America. with an approximated total of 2,414,807 in 2005, which is an increase of 20.8% since 2000. Between the years 1990 and 2000, Nevada’s population grew from 1,201,833 to 1,998,257, which is an increase of 66.3%, the largest increase in a decade by far. It was also the fourth consecutive decade in which Nevada was the “country’s fastest-growing state,”(direct quote, author) and had a growing population rate that was over 50%. Nevada’s population was predicted to have approximately 3 million people in 2015 and 3.8 million by the time it was 2025. In 2004, nearly 25.9% of the population in Nevada was under the age of 18, while 11.2% was 65 years old or older. Nevada still remains one of the most barren states. An estimated total of about 90% of Nevadans live in

around the nuclear site and also for the rest of the country and world because

Also, there were studies done on the effects of the radiation released in to the environment due the accident.There were many samples of air, water, and vegetation taken by people who were monitoring the area, and none concluded that the accident caused damaging effects on the environment.[10]

Native people have been around the Americas since before the Europeans came. Then the natives land began to shrink. Now in today’s society they have the lowest population amongst groups. Most native people use the land for growing goods like fruits and vegetables to tobacco. With the possibility of nuclear waste site in Yucca Mountains, it could threaten the fertility of their land. Environmental racism is the inequality in the form of racism linked with environmental factors and practices that cause disproportionate distress on minority communities (Knowledge Encyclopedia). The Yucca mountain project is environmental racism to the surrounding natives. To get across my point, the following paragraphs will talk about the history of the project, what the article was about, which tribes it would affect, why it is environmental racism and why the previous paragraphs prove my opinion.

The Hanford nuclear site in Benton, Washington was established in 1943 to produce the raw

They didn’t want to keep them near the houses and town because it provided additional security and they also feared explosions. They were all separated into three groups surrounding the town. One of the areas, known as the Y-12 area, held the electromagnetic plant and was the closest to Oak Ridge. Southwest of this plant were the other two areas known as the X-10 area, which held the experimental plutonium pile and separation buildings, and the K-25 area, which contained the gaseous diffusion plant. The K-25 area later included the S-50 thermal diffusion plant as

Nevada was admitted into the United States in 1864. The primary geographical landmark of this state is the Great Basin Desert national park, causing over 80 percent of Nevada's land to be owned and managed by the federal government. Nevada borders five states and is one of the states that connects to from the "Four Corners." Nevada also has the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the Rocky Mountains as its major landmarks. Most of the population resides in two regions, Washoe County and Clark County. These two counties are separated by 450 miles.

Unlike many other states Nevada’s statehood is very much connected to the Civil war and is not just a gambling town. Nevada was the second of only two states to be added to the Union during the Civil War. Some people from Nevada or that know a lot about Nevada may call it by one if its three most common nicknames such as, Battle-Born State, Sagebrush State, and Silver State. Nevada got its name from a group of Spaniards who called it Nevada which translated to English means snowy, because of how the mountains were always covered in snow during the winter. Today Nevada is part of the United States, which has not always been the case, Nevada became part of Mexico in 1821, and was not in possession of America until the Mexican-American War in 1848.When Nevada was finally taken by the United States, it became part of the Utah territory and was no longer called Nevada, until silver was discovered in the Comstock Lode in 1859 which led to a population boom, which led to Nevada becoming its own territory, but it still hadn’t made its way to statehood yet.

The United States tested nuclear bombs, “215 A- and H-bombs” (www.nukewatch.com) above ground between 1951 and 1963 in the Nevada Test Site. Fifty years later, the U.S government studies stated that over 80,000 people who lived or were born in the U.S suffered from cancer caused by radioactive fall-out from nuclear testing. Over 15,000 of them died. Many of whom were from the states close to the testing sites, called the “downwinders,” Utah, Idaho and other states. From the Nevada Test Site the winds carried nuclear radiation fallout, filled with “iodine-131” which caused “75,000 thyroid cancers, ten percent of which are estimated to have been fatal, and strontium-90 and cesium-137, which are dangerous for between 280 and 300 years,” (nukewatch) likely causes of bone and skin cancer and leukemia. Therefore, there is some strong evidence that nuclear fall-out in the 1950s did cause cancer.

Throughout history Nevada has been an outstanding state giving it residents the best it has to offer, as it still does today in the 1850’s it was no exception.

Finally, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was unjustified because of the lack of testing. Although the project to design the first atomic bomb, codenamed the Manhattan Project, began in 1941, the first bomb was not ready to be tested until the month before it would be used in 1945. When it was tested at Trinity Site in New Mexico, the detonation caused unexpected results (“The Manhattan Project”). It caused “A blinding flash visible for 200 miles lit up the morning sky. A mushroom cloud reached 40,000 feet, blowing out windows of civilian homes up to 100 miles away. When the cloud returned to earth it created a half-mile wide crater metamorphosing sand into glass” (“The

In the early hours of December 17, 2001, 46 Greenpeace activists broke into Australia’s nuclear site known as the Lucas Heights nuclear plant. The 46 volunteers split into two groups. Group one entered the grounds through a fence at the back of the facility, and the second group slipped in through the gate entrance. According to the activists in group two, there were only two security guards on duty at the front gate and none were mentioned for the back of the facility.

There are nuclear factories