Nuclear Energy is produced when Uranium atoms are split in a process called nuclear fission. ( Ballish 2015) Vast amounts of energy is released and generates heat. Nuclear Power Plants harness this energy and create electricity.Nuclear Power plants heat water to produce steam. The steam is used to spin large turbines that generate electricity (eia.gov […]
On March 11, 2001, an earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0 on the Richter scale hit Tohoku, Japan, the biggest earthquake in the history of the country. Along with over 15,000 deaths, the earthquake and the subsequent tsunami caused significant damage to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear plants (Oskin, 2017). The radiation leaks from the damaged […]
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Get startedThere is a touching book based on a real story called Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes written by Eleanor Coerr. The book is about a two-year-old girl Sadako who survived Hiroshima bombing, but by the age of twelve she was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. She was informed that she had one year to live. […]
Nuclear Power, nuclear Fission and Waste: Nuclear reaction is the process in which either the parent atom decays and produces various atoms and radiation (Nuclear Fission) or two atoms combine to produce a massive atom which also releases some radiation (Nuclear Fusion). Both type of the nuclear reaction releases higher amount of energy, in the […]
On April 20, 2010, the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig was watched by every nation as barrels of oil leaked into the Gulf of Mexico. This spill in particular was caused by a rush of natural gas that burst through the recently poured concrete which was used to seal off the oil well […]
