Radiation poisoning

All over the country, people are getting sick. Although, the symptoms are flu-like everyone has been tested and instead of testing positive for the flu they’ve all tested positive for radiation poisoning. The amount of radiation they have all been exposed to is unknown, and where all these average people are being exposed is also still unknown. Eventually, the population starts to drop, but the amount of people being diagnosed grows. After studies and autopsy on the deceased one link between victims

the country and world because of food products that could be grown there and used as market items.      Nuclear radiation is in no way healthy to anyone. It is much more easier to develop a life threatening disease if you are currently being effected by the radiation or have already been effected. Becoming sick from high amounts of radiation does not only

and extreme pressure on the brain. The common symptoms between all of the above syndromes are fatigue, fever, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, seizures, coma, and, in the worst case, death.(Acute Radiation Syndrome: A Fact Sheet for Clinicians) Many of the responders to the accident also received a dose of radiation and have suffered more than the average rates of cancer and other medical

When the first missile hits, Dr. Oakes is stranded on a crowded highway some thirty miles away, en route to the University of Kansas Hospital. He arrives by foot to treat a myriad of wounded patients, suffering from exposure to the high-levels of radiation released upon the missiles impact. As the crisis escalates, and another missile is launched from a nearby field in Missouri, the Dahlberg’s move hastily to take shelter in their basement, however, not without consequence; their youngest son, Danny

SUBMITTED TO: DR. JANKI ANDHARIA SUBMITTED BY: PARTHA DAS ENROLLMENT: M2015DM040 COURSE: MA/MSC IN DISASTER MANAGEMENT (2015-17) PAPER: MDM2 – Disasters, Vulnerability and Risk Introduction: Disaster has become the most emerging topic of recent times. But managing them totally is still not being possible even by the developed countries. Different scholars defined the term differently. A disaster is a serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society involving widespread human

atmosphere that caused 115000 people to evacuate from 30 kilometers around the area. As a result of this explosion, thirty-one of the plant personnel and the initial fire workers who involved in extinguishing the fire were died shortly from acute radiation sickness. The main issue causes Chernobyl disaster is complex since some people blame the Chernobyl tragedy on the power plant operator, the other blame on the design of the reactor itself (UNSCEAR, 2008). Piper Alpha platform explosion and massive

Although some Physicians are knowledgeable about radiation safety, others have little or no knowledge about radiation safety and does not consider this factor when ordering imaging examinations. Furthermore, non-physician health care providers may be granted the authority to order imaging studies, and their ordering patterns are likely to reflect the behavior of their supervising Physicians (American College of Radiology). Examples of non-physician health care providers include Physician Assistants

beings too careful or worrying too much about what people think about them. Many wish they would have been able to express their feelings more easily or done things which made them happy. On the Beach by Nevil Shute is a book in which the spread of radiation will soon end the lives of all living things. The characters only have a few months left to live, but how they decide to live their last days is up to them. Each main character in the book represents a method

1. The Context The radioactive exposure happened in Goiânia, capital of Goiás, in Brazil. The city is located in the middle west of Brazil and is close to the capital of the country, Brasília, as we can see in picture 1 above. Goiania have many farms, for both cereal and cattle. The mean annual temperature is 21.9°C, but can reach more than 30°C in summer, and the climate is humid with an annual rainfall of 1700 mm. Picture 1: Map of Brazil showing the contaminated area in Goiânia

radioactive nuclides from spreading. Coupled with their slower response time and lack of high quality equipment, their rescuing was slowed down and not as productive as it could have been. More lives could have been helped with advanced equipment and proper attire. In addition, the evacuation took a long period of time to commence. Once the evacuation started, it took eight days and until the second of May, leaders of the republic still had not visited Pripyat nor seen the damage done. These specific