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The Panama Canal
It was first open in August 15 1914. It was one of the most difficult engineering projects ever taken on. It takes 20-30 hours to go through it. -
castle bravo
name given to the first US first dry fuel hyrdrogen bomb. Most powerful nuclear device ever detonated to the US -
silent spring
Silent Spring was a enviromental science book written by Rachel Carson in the '60s. It was first published in 3 serialized excrepts in the New Yorker in JUne of 1962. It spurred revolutionary changes in in laws affecting our air, land and water. -
The Palomares Incident
B-52G collided with a KC-135 durring mid air refuelling. -
the 1st earth day
Senator Gaylord Nelson created it becuase he said that we only have 1 earth so we gotta take of it. 20 million people attended fevities that day -
The Seveso Disaster
it was industrail accdient at a small manufacturing plant in Italy. -
Amoco Cadiz
it was a very large crude carrier (VLCC) under the Liberian flag. It aground rocks on portsall rocks 5km from the coast of Brittany France and then it split in half and sunk -
The Three Mile Island Nuclear Explosion
partial nuclear meltdown 1 of the 2 out of the 3 island in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, It was one of the worst accidents in the US commerical power plant -
Bhopal Diaster
Gas leak in india, consider the worlds worst industerial diaster. happened on the night of 2-3 in dec. 1984, 500,000 people was exposed to methal gas, the death toll was 2,259. -
The Chernobyl Nuclear Explosion
It was a flawed reactor design that was operated with inadequately. 2 plant workers died the night of the inccident and 28 more died a few weeks later. -
Baia Mare Cyanide Spill
it was a leak of cyanide near Baia Mare, Romania, It went into the waters and polluated them so bad that it killed large numbers of fish near hungary and yugoslavia. -
The Al-mishraq Fire
It was a sulfur fire in Iraq. It was the largest man made sulfur dixiode release. -
TVA kingston fossil plant coal fly ash slurry spill
ash dike ruptured at an 84 acre solid waste containment 1.1 billion US gallons of coal fly ash slurry was released -
Jilin chemical plant explosions
series of explosions over an hour. killed 6, injured a dozen and caused evacuation of tens of thousands residents -
Fukushima Daiichi
a 15 meter tsunami disabled the power supply and cooling of 3 Fukushima Daiichi reactors and causing a nuclear accident -
Deep water horizon BP oil spill
200 million gallons of cruid oil was pumped into the gulf of mexico. 16,000 miles of coastline has been effected. 8,000 animals was reported dead just 6 mionths into the spill.
