risks associated with such disasters and the subsequent environmental remediation efforts all serve as important lessons and warnings for impending developments in nuclear power. Conversely‚ should nuclear threats to public health prove unavoidable‚ swift action should be taken to limit long-term environmental degradations through comprehensive waste disposal and remediation. Even with existing technologies in nuclear waste disposal‚ clean-up following a nuclear disaster still occurs at a painstaking
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Aberfan Disaster At least 85 children have been confirmed dead A generation of children has been wiped out” Minister of State for Wales At 0915‚ just as the pupils of Pantglas Junior School were about to embark on their first lessons. Only 25 children survived the catastrophe One of the first acts of the Labour Government when it was elected in 1997 was to pay the £150‚000 back; figure should have been nearer £1.5m £500 was paid to those involved‚ and £1‚000 to those who had lost one or more
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DISASTERS We all crave for a peaceful and prosperous living in this world. But nature is not always as tranquil as a calm lake or as azure as a cloudless sky. Nature endows us with a considerable number of great natural resources that we exploit to develop our lives in order to keep up with the rapid change of our own country. However‚ regardless of whether we fight with all might to protect the environment or step to the opposite side whose people are apt to harm it‚ nature more or less
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The night of December 2‚ 1984 could have been like any other night in Bhopal‚ but around 11:00 PM‚ one of the world’s largest industrial tragedies in history decimated the city and scarred its inhabitants for life. Imagine the feeling of waking up in the middle of the night‚ unable to breathe‚ eyes burning‚ and chaos erupting in streets. Death and disarray in every place you look and life as you know it ending in agonizing flooding of your lungs as they collapse in upon themselves. This terrible
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OF NATURAL DISASTERS ABSTRACT: Disasters of both natural and technological origin have a considerable impact on communities. The effects of disasters in India are significantly reduced by well established counter disaster arrangements at all three levels of government. These arrangements comprise comprehensive plans of prevention‚ preparedness‚ response and recovery and in more recent times‚ of mitigation. The economic effects of disasters can be devastating and widespread. When disasters strike houses
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BHOPAL GAS TRAGEDY – A SOCIAL‚ ECONOMIC‚ LEGAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS “…the struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” -Milan Kundera (The Book of Laughter and Forgetting) SUBMITTED BY: MALINI NAIR Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1977710 DEPARTMENT OF RANGELAND ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT 2 Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1977710 BHOPAL GAS TRAGEDY – A SOCIAL‚ ECONOMIC‚ LEGAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS
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accidents in recorded history was the 1984 Bhopal disaster in India‚ in which more than 3‚000 people were killed after a highly toxic vapour‚ (methyl isocyanate)‚ was released at a Union Carbide pesticides factory. Efforts to prevent accidents range from improved safety systems to fundamental changes in chemical use and manufacture‚ referred to as primary prevention or inherent safety. In the United States‚ concern about chemical accidents after the Bhopal disaster led to the passage of the 1986 Emergency
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In the Wake of Disaster by Dr. Harold Koenig‚ was written as a guide on how faith based organizations and world recognized organizations such as FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) and Red Cross (p.17) can collaborate when a disaster strikes. It is before times of disasters that these organizations must come together to fully understand the scope of their capabilities as a team. There are many organizations that are called upon to assist such as mental health organizations when people’s
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A disaster is a sudden‚ calamitous event that seriously disrupts the functioning of a community or society and causes human‚ material‚ and economic or environmental losses that exceed the community’s or society’s ability to cope using its own resources. Though often caused by nature‚ disasters can have human origins. There can be two kinds of disasters Natural Disaster –naturally occurring physical phenomena caused either by onset events which can be geophysical (earthquakes‚ landslides‚ tsunamis
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Disaster Management and importance of Local Information Sharing In Uttarakhand State recently we faced one type of Natural Disaster. Thousands of lives are lost. It may seems to be a big event from the perspective of human lives‚ but if we study the life of earth‚ it is a routine and small act of nature. A number of geologist will agree with me that it is not surprising act. And it is not when we have disturbed the natural balances by humans routine activities. We have
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