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travla01 on 21 Jul 13Use the website Prezi for History guiding activity
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Economic Impact of Coal in PA - 0 views
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PA Coal history
ExplorePAHistory.com - Stories from PA History - 0 views
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"Coal is to the world of industry what sun is to the natural world." Coal was critical to the United States' industrial revolution. By the late nineteenth century it replaced wood as the preferred fuel for powering factories, locomotives, and ships, and displaced wood for home heating in the northeastern United States.
Fukashima Nuclear Plant - 0 views
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The Past Is Present at Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant - 0 views
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Beyond the cabbage patch and rows of pre-cut Christmas trees, past fruit stands filled with pumpkins and apples, along the bank of the Susquehanna River, sits the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. It's by far the most robust and majestic structure in the neighborhood, an unlikely blend of the Loire Valley Castles in France and Eastern Europe's Communist-era architecture.
Backgrounder on the Three Mile Island Accident - 0 views
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Printable Version (does not include Animated Diagram of the Sequence of Events) On this page: The Three Mile Island Unit 2 (TMI-2) reactor, near Middletown, Pa., partially melted down on March 28, 1979. This was the most serious accident in U.S.
Backgrounder on Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Accident - 0 views
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Printable Version Background On April 26, 1986, a sudden surge of power during a reactor systems test destroyed Unit 4 of the nuclear power station at Chernobyl, Ukraine, in the former Soviet Union. The accident and the fire that followed released massive amounts of radioactive material into the environment.
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Printable Version Background On April 26, 1986, a sudden surge of power during a reactor systems test destroyed Unit 4 of the nuclear power station at Chernobyl, Ukraine, in the former Soviet Union. The accident and the fire that followed released massive amounts of radioactive material into the environment.
Nuclear Disaster Japan - 0 views
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Lessons from Fukushima, a report on February 28th, 2012 shows that the Fukushima nuclear disaster was caused by the failures of the Japanese government to protect its citizens from nuclear risks and not by the natural disasters of an earthquake and tsunami as thenuclear industry would like us to believe.
Nuclear Power and Superstorms Don't Mix - 0 views
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Superstorm Sandy's unexpected wrath makes a powerful case for revisiting Fukushima and the dangers to nuclear energy from natural disasters. As Sandy made landfall on Atlantic City, Oyster Creek nuclear power plant nearby was fortunately on a scheduled outage. But Indian Point 3 in Buchanan, N.Y.
Hard lessons for U.S. nuclear safety from Fukushima meltdown - 0 views
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Editor's note: Daniel P. Aldrich is associate professor of political science at Purdue University, an American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow at USAID during 2011-2012, and a Fulbright research fellow at the University of Tokyo (2012-2013). He is the author of the books "Site Fights" and "Building Resilience" (University of Chicago Press, coming out in August).
Roger's World - 0 views
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If it were not for naturally occurring greenhouse gases, the Earth would be too cold to support life as we know it. Without the greenhouse effect, the average temperature of the Earth would be about -2°F rather than the 57°F we currently experience There are over 1,000 surface mines and more than 1,000 underground mines in the US.
What is Mountain Top Removal Mining? - 0 views
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Mountaintop removal / valley fill coal mining (MTR) has been called strip mining on steroids. One author says the process should be more accurately named: mountain range removal. Mountaintop removal /valley fill mining annihilates ecosystems, transforming some of the most biologically diverse temperate forests in the world into biologically barren moonscapes.
Four Major Energy Sources: Their Pros and Cons - 0 views
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RP Siegel frequently contributes to Triple Pundit, a website devoted to sustainability initiatives favoring "people, planet, profits." Recently Triple Pundit posted Siegel's series exploring the advantages and disadvantages of four widely used energy sources that fuel American industry. Whether a fossil fuel or renewable energy, every source presents its own unique set of challenges.
Three Mile Island Accident - 0 views
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Three Mile Island: In 1979 at Three Mile Island in USA a cooling malfunction caused part of the (TMI 2) core to melt. The reactor was destroyed but there were no injuries or adverse health effects from the Three Mile Island accident.
Chernobyl Accident: Health Impacts - 0 views
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The health effects of the Chernobyl accident have been the subject of unprecedented study by health professionals and unprecedented speculation and exaggeration by parts of the media. This Appendix summarises the following authoritative and expert assessments of the situation: