Project Assignment
Write a paper on a radiation/nuclear incident. (EXCEPT Chernobyl): See APA Template for naming and alignment. Two attempts will be allowed if necessary. Your SafeAssign Originality Report percentage should be below 30%. If above 30% the work will not be graded because it will be considered not your original work. This is a violation of the University Honor Code and is at the instructor's discretion to report.
Requirements:
o BE APA STYLE. See the APA template on Blackboard under the assignment.
o 3-5 typewritten pages
o Times New Roman, size 12 point font, Double spaced, header and footer, title page, abstract, in-text citations, reference page
o Have a minimum of 2 sources documented with in-text citations
o Have had a biological impact on the inhabitants/individual (in other words there must be deaths, and/or increased incidents of illness.)
o Paper should be organized according to sections
Section 1: Brief explanation of the incident (include isotopes, exposure rates, etc)
Section 2: Description of the biological effects on the population (i.e. # of deaths, incidents of cancer, acute radiation sickness, etc)
Section 3: Long term effects of the incident (i.e. psychological, financial, biological, etc)
Section 4: Conclusion (what did you learn from this project)
If you want to do a topic that is not on the attached list you must get prior approval from me. List of Radiological/Nuclear Incidents-there are others, but this is a list to give you some ideas.
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Detonation
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Treatment of tinea capitis
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X-ray treatment of ankylosing spondylitis
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Uranium miners and milers
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Thorotrast (radioactive contrast media used in angiography 1925-1945)
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Radium dial painters
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Fluoroscopic guided pneumothorax for treatment of tuberculosis
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Nuclear dockyard workers
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Participants in nuclear weapons tests
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Reactor personnel
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Juarez, Mexico Incident (1983)
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Goiania, Brazil Incident (1987)
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Alexander Litvinenko (2006)
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Three-Mile Island Nuclear Facility (1979)
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Marshall Island inhabitants
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Manhattan Project chemists (1944)
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Boeing Rocketdyne Nuclear Testing Facility
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Chelyebinsk - 40
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Shoe Fitting Fluoroscope
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Oak Ridge Critical Accident (1958)
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Rhode Island (1962)
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Fukushima power plants Japan (2011)
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Winscale - United Kingdom (1957)
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Attachment:- Gross-Lucas-Title-of-the-Paper-NMED.rar