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What is nuclear energy?
Why is it considered as a hazard? Why are control methods necessary?
Energy created in a nuclear reaction is called nuclear energy or atomic energy Could be produced in two ways which are Fission and Fusion
Nuclear energy is widely used in production of electricity and nuclear radiations are widely used in fields of medicine and agriculture too. During World War II bombs dropped in 1. Hiroshima U-235,dropped on 6th August 1945. 2. Nagasaki U-238,dropped on 9th August 1945.
TNT.
material fussioning.
Sieverts
The sievert (symbol: Sv) is the International System
of Units (SI) SI derived unit of dose equivalent radiation The unit sievert measures the equivalent dose of radiation (H), having the same damaging effect as an equal dose of gamma rays The hourly doses are 1.6 Sv/h (14 mSv/year) in the city of Fukushima and 0.062 Sv/h (0.54 mSv/year) in Tokyo Maximum acceptable dose for the public from any man made facility: 1 mSv/year
increase, leading to explosions in its core. This dispersed large quantities of radioactive fuel and core materials into the atmosphere. The Chernobyl Disaster remains the only Level 7 incident on the International Nuclear Event Scale created an immense radioactive cloud that was detected all over the European continent and even fell to the ground in Ireland in the form of light nuclear rain
affected by the Chernobyl disaster aftermath of the disaster (between 1986 and 2000), +/- 350,000 people were evacuated and resettled world's worst nuclear accident that took 10 days to
more than 5 digits (polydactyly) in hands and feet were the genetic defects observed in Chernobyl
Leukemia and breast cancer are the two common types of cancers linked to exposure to radiations
a massive tsunami March 11 Another level-7 rating on the sliding scale of nuclear disasters after chernobyl Disaster is 200 times worse than Hiroshima Exposure Half-life of iodine 131, a dangerous radioactive isotope released in nuclear accidents: eight days Half-life of cesium 137, another major radionuclide released in nuclear accidents: 30 years Decay products of iodine 131 and cesium 137: both emit gamma rays and beta particles (electrons or positrons)