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    Have you ever helped someone out when they needed it? What caused the first explosion was that there was faulty in the reactor. Is there a time you can remember someone had your back when you didn’t expect it? Nobody was alarmed that the explosion had happened and the soviet put many lives in danger. The cause of Chernobyl is very sad because this should have never happened. The cause of the explosion was from a faulty reactor in the power plant. The reactor was not stable when it was in use. Right

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    identified and controlled. Therefore all industrial disasters are preventable.” Discuss. This essay discusses the apparently logical proposition that if risk can be identified and controlled, industrial disasters are preventable. It first examines the concepts of ‘risk’, ‘identification and control’, ‘disaster’ and ‘preventable’ before examining the nature of the industrial disaster through a systems approach; it will be shown that a disaster can be deconstructed in order to present a series of

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    captured and converted into usable electric energy. However, there are some serious dangers surrounding nuclear power for instance Chernobyl (Ukraine) in 1986, Three-mile-island (Pennsylvania) in 1979, and Fukushima (Japan) in 2011. The Chernobyl disaster was a result of human error, this accident resulted because proper protocols were not followed. The explosion caused a partial meltdown which resulted in the release of radiation levels ranging from 10,000 – 300,000 mSv/hr (Meyer, 2014). The mishap

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    The Chernobyl Disaster was not meant to happen at all, what was supposed to happen was an experiment to see if the reactor’s own electrical needs could be supplied by a freewheeling turbine in the event of a power outage, but the experiment did not go as it was planned. This experiment gone wrong caused so much radiation sickness to the people, which lead to death by sickness, or death by cancer. The people who lived ended up having children with many mutations and disabilities. The Soviet Union

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    To start off with, what is a disaster? Well, a disaster is a natural or man-made hazard resulting in an event of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction, loss of life, or drastic change to the environment. Thus, an engineering disaster is a disaster that is caused by an error an engineer has made in the production of the product or service. Committing a mistake is part of being human. Unfortunately for engineers, due to the importance of their job in creating products

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    II-The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster The year following the triple disaster of Fukushima was a year of self-assessment, self-criticism and adjustment. It is a model of governance that has been highly criticized in Japan. Of course, to avoid panic, the Government had decided not to warn people of the risks they could incur, when it became probable, a few days after the disaster, that the heart of the reactors had melted. But the government itself was misinformed, and oversight agencies that

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    The first natural disaster recorded in China was in 1556. It was an earthquake that killed 830,000 people (“Deadliest Earthquake in History Rocks China.”). The most recent natural disaster in China was an earthquake on September 30th, 2017(earthquake.usgs.gov). 451 years later, and China is still getting natural disasters that are killing thousands of people. The buildings are being rebuilt, people are picking up and moving on, but the disasters keep coming back, sometimes causing more damage than

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    Lesson learned with the help of technology Natural disasters happen unexpectedly all over the world that can cause injury, death, and finical devastation, however over time technology can play a role in the question "why" and "when". The Aldercrest-Banyon landslide was one disaster that put Kelso, Washington on the worst urban landslides in the United States history when it comes to cost. (FEMA, 2013)According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2012) "Landslides occur when masses of rock

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    The Fukushima and the Chernobyl Disasters Both the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident of 2011 and the Chernobyl nuclear accident of 1986 were both rated seven according to the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale. However, the two nuclear accidents differed in terms of their cause, the response from the government and health effects. Key facts about both accidents The Chernobyl accident caused by a flawed reactor design which was being operated by inadequately trained people. The steam

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    Introduction 3 Business Continuity Plan: What is it exactly? 4 Disaster Recovery 5 Difference between Business continuity Plan and Disaster Recovery 5 Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning Audit 6 Best Practices for BCP and DR Plan 9 Conclusion 13 References 14 Abstract Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity planning are the processes that help organizations to prepare for the disruptive events that may occur. Disaster recovery events in the past were designed to provide backup

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