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Bellringer : Take out Fuel Cycle Cards to practice! You should be getting good by now! Practice ordering them using the description of the step, not the name of the step!. Hwk : STUDY. Multiple Choice part of Quiz tomorrow!. Today 3/22/12. Bellringer Nuclear Fallout/Environmental Impacts
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Bellringer: Take out Fuel Cycle Cards to practice! You should be getting good by now! Practice ordering them using the description of the step, not the name of the step! Hwk: STUDY. Multiple Choice part of Quiz tomorrow!
Today 3/22/12 • Bellringer • Nuclear Fallout/Environmental Impacts • Short Review Game
Fallout • Isotopes are released into atmosphere • Can penetrate living organisms to disrupt chemical bonds in that organism • Radiation Sickness • Up to 25,000 people in Japan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQLn6R7r47k
Marine Impact • How? • Effluent directly from reactors • Fallout blown into ocean • Rainout of contaminated ground • Different isotopes have different half lives! • Cs-137 = 30 years!
Marine Impact • Bioaccumulation • Japan has highest seafood consumption rate
Land Impact • No clean drinking water • Agricultural Shutdown • Livestock – cows, sheep, chickens • Crops – peaches, rice • Huge evacuation zones