UNIS08 IDU Nuclear Energy

USA down the table for social justice

Workers have been taken to hospital, radioactivity has been detected in food and tap water, and it's not clear how safe the reactor is - but how bad is the situation really? What is radiation, and what does it do to us? And how can we make sense of the numbers flying around?

UNIS Students in 8BD 2010-11 created infographics/datavisualisations about nuclear energy. Students were working on an #IDU in their #MYP course

This website shows details about radiation and the health risks

This article is talks about the types of radiation

This link gives you a brief idea of what Radiation Exposure is and what it does.

This link tals aboubt Ionizing Radiations and the standards of it.

This website talked about almost everything we need to cover on Nuclear Power for IDU. It talks about how nuclear power was made, the disadvantages and advantages, etc.

Interactive infographic on energy use and distribution in the USA from good transparency people

This website talk alot about nuclear reactors and their jobs, also they talked about how the nuclear power plant work.

We are looking at the pros and cons of nuclear energy. After the Japan earthquake and tsunami 2011 we need to ask why was a nuclear power station built on a fault line and where are the others? from the people at goodtranparency (excellent website of infographics and data visualisation)

How Stuff Works talks about how radiation works and covers mutliple other topics.

How Stuff Works talks about how radiation works and covers mutliple other topics.

Radiation exposure in Japan and its effects on human health.

This side talks about possible radiation illnesses and ways to treat them.

The WHO explains: Ionizing radiation, Chernobyl, radiation accidents and emergencies, environmental radiation, about ionizing radiation.

There are different ways to deal with radiation exposure. This site also talked about the difference of radiation exposure and comtamination.

Health effects are the central focus of EPA's Radiation Protection Programs. This site talk about the long and short effect of radiation, health effect after amount of time exposing to radiation, and other risks of radiation exposure.

Figures out the average radiation you get exposed everytime/day. Estimates the mrem (measurement for radiation exposure), and how it is estimated.

The US EPA (Environmental Protection Agency of America" suggest simple things to do to avoid radiation exposure such as wearing heavy clothes and making a shield to protect your skin from the radiation.