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Appendix A

Final Project

Write a paper on a radiation/nuclear incident. (EXCEPT Chernobyl):

It must: Be 3-5 typewritten pages

Be double spaced

Have a minimum of 2 sources documented

APA Style—Times New Roman, font size 12 pt., 1” margins on all sides

Visit Purdue Owl Writing Lab (https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/)

The incident must have a biological impact on the inhabitants/individual (in other words there must be deaths, and/or increased incidents of illness.)

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)

List of Radiological/Nuclear Incidents—there are others, but this is a list to give you some ideas.

· Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Detonation

· Treatment of tinea capitis

· X-ray treatment of ankylosing spondylitis

· Fluoroscopic guided pneumothorax for treatment of tuberculosis

· Thorotrast (radioactive contrast media used in angiography 1925-1945)

· Radium dial painters

· Uranium miners and milers

· Nuclear dockyard workers

· Participants in nuclear weapons tests

· Reactor personnel

· Juarez, Mexico Incident (1983)

· Goiania, Brazil Incident (1987)

· Alexander Litvinenko (2006)

· Three-Mile Island Nuclear Facility (1979)

· Marshall Island inhabitants

· Manhattan Project chemists (1944)

· Boeing Rocketdyne Nuclear Testing Facility

· Chelyebinsk – 40

· Shoe Fitting Fluoroscope

· Oak Ridge Critical Accident (1958)

· Rhode Island (1962)

· Fukushima power plants Japan (2011)

· Winscale – United Kingdom (1957)