Radioactivity

the world. As her quote said, Marie Curie’s discoveries were ones that accomplished more good from them than evil. Curie helped to discover not only one, but two elements that are exceptionally important to today’s society, Polonium, Radium, and radioactivity. Many people have heard of Marie Curie at one point in their lives, the vast majority have probably heard her name in a science class, but fail to recognize her true contribution to mankind. Her hard work and dedication to her passion has saved

The Current Science Career I chose is nuclear chemistry, nuclear chemistry is the study of the chemistry of radioactive substances. Nuclear chemists research and attempt to understand radioactive elements and nuclear processes. Nuclear chemistry is a career with multiple options in medical and electrical fields that focuses on creating solutions to current world-issues. In regard to education, a nuclear chemist lab technician typically has a bachelor’s in chemistry, physics, geology, etc., while

rays remained the same despite the condition or form of the uranium. This idea created the field of atomic physics and Madame Curie invented the term radioactivity to describe the occurrence. Later, in 1897, Marie and Pierre had a daughter. The birth of their daughter didn’t slow down their work. In order to help Marie with her exploration of radioactivity, Pierre decided to put his work aside. In 1898 they both discovered a new radioactive element. They named it polonium in honor of Marie’s country

cataracts and thyroid cancer (Lallanilla marc).134 firefighters were affected by the radiation (Adams) . 28 total died in the next from the disaster three months (Adams) . The spread of the radioactivity hospitalized 203 people from Ukraine of whom 31 died just from the radioactivity itself. (Strauss)thyroid

doses of radiation (Lopez 85). Currently, investigators for the energy department have not determined the reason behind the explosion and why radioactive waste products buried more than feet below the ground has a chemical reaction that led to radioactivity. In addition, there are no experts to assert that the accident occur with other drums that were containing the same kind of waste products from nuclear plants. Waste Isolation Pilot Plant is located in an ancient salt bed dug out as a conventional

workers at the Fukushima power plants as well as residents that live in the surrounding area. The main purpose that I perceived from this article was to outline the accident at the power plant briefly so that the main focus could be placed on radioactivity measures. I will use this article for data in my

Nuclear and toxic waste have slowly crept its way up to the main priority of disposal agencies all over the country and the world, as the scientists have created new chemicals and, militaries have created nuclear warheads able to destroy entire cities. Anything that is categorized as Toxic waste is “poisonous” to humans, and the environment. Nuclear waste usually can be anything that has been exposed to gamma radiation from nuclear power plants or a nuclear explosion. The U.S. alone has What

You may not know much about nuclear power, you may not know anything at all but most importantly you may not know how dangerous it is. I am going to take a look back at Chernobyl and show you just how dangerous it can be. (1)At 1:23 am on April 26th 1986, 2 explosions devastated a nuclear power plant in Chernobyl. These explosions unleashed huge amounts of toxic radiation into the atmosphere. This radiation created a toxic plume of radiation that not only devastated Chernobyl but affected almost

The United States Should Oppose of the Yucca Mountain Repository For years, the State of Nevada has found the Yucca Mountain project unacceptable because of the obvious logical and scientific issues that make the site itself unsafe. Additional support for their argument is that other than being far from the nuclear waste, the repository cannot really separate itself and its dangers from the environment and humans. Even though Nevada started with just being upset about the state having the political

Iodine-131’s atomic structure has 5 energy levels in total. The first energy level has 2 electrons, second energy level has 8 electrons, third energy level has 18 electrons, fourth energy level has 18 electrons and finally the fifth energy level has 7 electrons. The radioisotope has a half-life of 8.0 days and every half-life in the radioactive Iodine is reduced by 50%, however, the other 50% does not become part of Iodine-131 because it becomes stable. The radioisotope has 53 protons and 78 neutrons