2] A natural disaster is the effect of a natural hazard (e.g.‚ flood‚ tornado‚ hurricane‚ volcanic eruption‚ earthquake‚ or landslide). It leads to financial‚ environmental or human losses. The resulting loss depends on the vulnerability of the affected population to resist the hazard‚ also called their resilience.[1] This understanding is concentrated in the formulation: "disasters occur when hazards meet vulnerability."[2] Environmental disasters are occurring with alarming regularity. But the
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Contents Introduction…………………………………………………………………2 The Chernobyl Disaster Overview……………………………………………………………..3 Causes of the disaster………………………………………………...4 Effects of the Chernobyl accident…………………………………....6 Human impacts of the accident……………………………………....7 Why and how do industrial accidents happen?..............................................8 . How can accidents be minimized?.................................................................9 . Role of engineers How
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Anthropogenic hazard Anthropogenic hazards or human-made hazards can result in the form of a human-made disaster. In this case‚ anthropogenic means threats having an element of human intent‚ negligence‚ or error; or involving a failure of a human-made system. It results in huge loss of life and property. It further affects a person’s mental‚ physical and social well-being. Sociological hazards Crime Crime is a breach of the law for which some governing authority (via the legal systems) can ultimately
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Cited: Lukatsky‚ Efrem. "Chernobyl remains a Soviet-era nightmare." Knoxville News Sentinel 23 April 2006.
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drawbacks. Even the clean hydropower option has negative ramifications. Weigh those against the possible consequences of developing nuclear power‚ a controversial alternative to fossil fuels. Discuss the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster as well as the 20th century Chernobyl nuclear meltdown in drawing conclusions about risk versus reward of nuclear energy use. The paper must be two to three pages in length and formatted according to APA style. You must use at least one scholarly source other than
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In January 2012‚ the Center for Disease Control and Prevention released their Preliminary Data for the Leading Causes of Death in the United States. Their report showed that cancer is ranked at number two once again. As cancer rates remain high‚ it becomes increasingly important to understand what kinds of carcinogens‚ or cancer-causing agents‚ are around us‚ and how much they impact us. The known carcinogens that are well documented in terms of cancer death rates include smoking‚ alcohol consumption
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View together ‘’It happened in Chernobyl’ Part 1 and Part 2 - discuss http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=b11aWXkehtY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwMdh2SZ5-k&feature=player_embedded Using - * Consequences in more than one country http://www.grida.no/graphicslib/detail/the-continental-scale-of-the-chernobyl-accident_12e3 * The Torch report http://www.chernobylreport.org/?p=summary * THE GUARDIAN – Affects of Chernobyl explained http://www.guardian.co
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the use of such measures‚ there have been many accidents with varying impacts as well near misses and incidents.” Some serious and more well-known nuclear accidents that have disastrous impact include the Three Mile Island accident in 1979‚ the Chernobyl accident in 1986 and the Fukushima accident in 2011. For instance‚ in the Fukushima accident‚ 19‚126 people were dead or missing and decontamination work is estimated to be last for at least one decade. The International Nuclear and Radiological
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National Poet in Wales since 2008. The Chernobyl Nuclear Plant in Russia was the site of a massive explosion in 1986. Radiation from the accident killed people and animals from the local area‚ including 6 firemen who put out the fire after the explosion. The effect and spread of the disaster can’t be accurately predicted after a nuclear accident because radioactive particles can be carried by the wind. They can also get into the water cycle. The Chernobyl disaster was one of the motivations for the
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