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Using Irradiation To Make Food Safer For Consumers
1,171 wordsUsing Irradiation to Make Food Safer for Consumers In the world today, there is a limited access to fresh and uncontaminated food. Gunjan Sign, of Popular Science, reports that "The U. S. Centers of Disease Control estimates 6. 5 million confirmed cases and more than 25 million additional unreported incidents of food poisoning each year" (65). For example, with seventy-five percent of the chicken in Europe and sixty percent of the chicken in the United States infected, salmonella is a serious pr...
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J Robert Oppenheimer Second World War
1,444 wordsThe atomic bomb was more destructive than any other weapon ever produced. Clearly its destruction power was greater than the world had ever known. The atomic weapon was invented for the sole purpose of being used in warfare. In 1943 America began something called the Manhattan Project. J. Robert Oppenheimer, an atomic scientist from Germany, headed this project. The U. S. dropped two atomic bombs on two Japanese cities in of 1945 to put an end to the Second World War. The atomic bombs ending Wor...
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Decision Making Process Toxic Waste
1,707 wordsI am evaluating solutions to reduce the proliferation of chemical and radioactive industrial carcinogens that threaten human health nationally and globally. I am specifically concerned with the toxic health effects on minority and low-income communities. After critiquing several alternatives, I can recommend methods to find reparations for suffering resulting from severe medical problems. More than half of the nations 26 million African Americans and more than a third of its Latinos live in neig...
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Nuclear Power Plants Amount Of Energy
2,517 wordsModern technologies and industries use huge quantities of energy every moment, to run each machines, and to create heat, light and refrigeration, and people base their life-style on the certainty of readily available sources of energy. In almost all developing countries the demand for energy is growing as populations increase. Energy use is closely tied to health and well-being. The fast-growing demand for energy all around the world offers the opportunity for people to avoid the high-energy and...
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000 Tons Of Tnt Atomic Bomb
1,006 wordsQuestion: What did you learn about Nuclear Weapons from reading this book? On August 6, 1945, approximately 70, 000 Japanese lives were ended within a matter of seconds. The United States, under command of President Truman and Secretary of War Henry Stimson, dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. After reading author John Hersey s book entitled Hiroshima, it made me ponder about what would go through my head if I were on Hiroshima soil. What actions might I take? What would I do to sur...
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Billion Years Ago Development Of Nuclear
973 wordsTable of contents Page 1: The development of nuclear energy. Page 2: What is nuclear winter. Page 3 &# 038; 4: Effects of nuclear weapons. Page 5 &# 038; 6: parts of a nuclear reactor. The development of nuclear energy In 1972, scientists discovered a natural chain reaction had occurred nearly 2 billion years ago in a uranium deposit in the west-central part of Africa. Two billion years ago, radioactive decay had not progressed so far a sit has today because of this, he are contained enough U- 2...
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