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Asbestos is a set of six naturally occurring silicate minerals,[1] which all have in common their eponymous asbestiform habit: long thin fibrous crystals, with each visible fiber composed of millions of microscopic "fibrils" that can be released by abrasion and other processes.Libby, Montana, is the story of a town discovering and then coping with toxic asbestos dust
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-Pesticide sprays were harmful to the people
-Accussed chemical companies of spreading false information -
-Most powerful nuclear device
-exceeded expectations and released radioactivity -
-a bomber collided with a tanker in mid air and killed seven new memebers of the air force
-happened over the medditaranian sea off the coast of spain -
-15th largest nuclear power station in the world
-an earthquake damaged the plant so people within that area had to evacuate -
-descovered by soviet engineers looking to find oil but instead found gas
-after abandonment the area collapsed creating a giant hole in the ground -
-worst nuclear accident to happen in US history
-rated a five on a point seven international nuclear event scale -
-High concentrations were discovered
-Componenets are almost not visible to the human eye -
-was released in Alaska
-one of the most devistating human caused disaster -
-caused by iraq millitary personel wanting to gain millitary contrrol
-actually did not end untill april of 1991 -
-series of explosians
-Killed six and injured dozens -
The Sidoarjo mud flow or Lapindo mud is the result of an erupting mud volcano.
It's located in the subdistrict of Porong, Sidoarjo in East Java, Indonesia that has been in eruption since May 2006. -
-1.1 billion US gallons of coal fly ash curry was released
-largest fly ash released in US history
