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    is the process in which two nuclei fuse together to form a larger nuclei. Nuclear reactors can become unstable creating an uncontrollable nuclear reaction. The effects of this can be seen in Chernobyl. Reactors have been designed safer after this disaster. Nuclear fission is the process in which a nucleus spits into two or more smaller nuclei. Nuclear reactors use a controlled chain reaction to produce electricity. The rate at

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    Disaster is a blind killer as it erupts and affects thousands worldwide. The severity of disasters is expected to increase as a result of contemporary threats (biological, cyber, nuclear, etc.) in addition to increased globalization and climate change. Yet sometimes government bodies, corporations, and the like fall short in instituting preventative systems to avert a disaster, oftentimes causing the general populous to be inadequately prepared should a catastrophe occur. Union Carbide’s gas leak

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    “Pompeii: The Last Day” is a documentary about the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. The eruption of Mount Vesuvius is known as one the worst natural disasters in the ancient world. Within a twenty-four hour period, the city of Pompeii was destroyed along with around five thousand of its people. Vesuvius Volcano had remained silent for one-thousand five-hundred years until August 24, 1879. The civilians were living their everyday lives, and signs had begun to appear in regards to the eruption

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    Business Continuity Plan for Riordan Manufacturing NTC/411 October 27, 2014 Business Continuity Plan for Riordan Manufacturing Riordan Manufacturing is in need of a new network, this plan will develop a network that will benefit the business, the employees and the customers in a manner that will provide all of them with a smooth operating experience as well as to future proof the entire network. The Network will handle all incoming and outgoing traffic for both the employees on the intranet

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    Background and literature Review The Chernobyl accident was a disastrous nuclear event that happened on 26th April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine. The Chernobyl disaster is classified as a level 7 event according to the International Nuclear Event Scale (only two events have been classified this high in the past) and has caused damages that consist of the cost of 500,000 workers and 18 billion rubles, 31 deaths according to the Soviet casualty count (this is still being disputed)

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    of Chernobyl on the Ecosystem Days of manmade or natural disasters start like any other. The accident of Chernobyl and the its effect on the ecosystem surrounding the initial site has been studied by scientist for the past thirty years. The effects to the ecosystem during and immediately after the accident, as well as the recovery still taking place thirty years later show how far an ecosystem can come back in its recovery from a manmade disaster. The actual causes of the accident itself was a

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    inches (p. 3) sent a massive tsunami rushing towards a forested stretch of the Japanese coast south of Sendai where the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power reactors stood vulnerable (p. 4). Over the ensuing weeks, the world watched in horror as a natural disaster transformed into a man-made catastrophe: fail-safes failed, cooling systems shut down, nuclear rods melted, communications broke down, hazardous radioactive exposures and contamination occurred, and masses of people were displaced. Safety of

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    Three Mile Island 
Anthropogenic Environmental Disaster The nuclear plant located in Harrisburg; The USA, Pennsylvania. Accident to unit two of the plant happened at 4 am on March of 1979 when a reactor operated over approximately 97 percent of its power capability. By a malfunction produced at the secondary cooling circuit, The temperature in the primary coolant lifts up creating an automatically the reactor's shutdown. Following to it the relieve valve fail to close, the prime coolant drained

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    Discovery of Radiation 3. Health Effects of Radiation 4. Fukushima 5. Radiation Sources 6. Aircrew Radiation Exposure 7. Natural Ways to Reduce Radiation in Your Body 8. Conclusion Abstract This paper goes over radiation safety precautions and all the health risk dealing with radiation. I will discuss the discovery of radiation, non-iodizing and iodizing radiation, natural exposure to radiation, Alpha, Beta, and Gamma radiation and how they affect us. Also the paper will be going over radiation

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    our lives for many years. Some events that included nuclear power included the Cold War and the Chernobyl disaster. These events have changed how people view nuclear energy. Nuclear power is used all around the world to create efficient energy, but it can also be used to create weapons and destructive material. Nuclear power has proven to be clean, efficient and cost effect; the Chernobyl disaster revealed to the world why we needed to change training, safety procedure, and the structure of the plant

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