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[| Latitude/Longitude Google Earth Lesson Page]
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[|Dissection of a Blue Mackerel]

[|Salmon Dissection Game] [|Perch Lab ID Pictures]

Carbon Footprint Calculators:
[|Carbon Footprint - Nature Conservancy]

Nuclear Energy Current Events:

 * Summarize the information provided on the website you've found and link the site with your description below each topic heading. Make sure you include your name with the description you provide. Try to contribute a unique website for the topic and don't repeat one already provided!**

Nuclear Waste Disposal
[|http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7012705.ece] Yucca Mountain is in Nevada. They are trying to use this mountain to dispose of nuclear waste. They were going to do this by storing it in rock tunnels, far deep under the ground. This is a big concern with the people that live in Nevada because of it being so close to the water supply. CLICK ON MY LINK TO READ MORE! Jodie and Kaitlyn

[|http://churchillcountynwop.com/yucca.htm] In the late 1950s The National Academy of Science looked into the upcoming nuclear waste disposal problem. Danny and Ryan

Chernobyl Disaster Long-term Effects
[|So far the biggest threat to long term health is thyroid cancer. Very little is known about long term health effect to exposure of radiation because it is a relatively knew phenomenon] Matt and Sammy

Marisa and Sarah - After the accident, two people died that night. 28 people died from acute radiation poisoning. 30 people died, out of the 134 cases. 5% of radioactive material was released into the open air. 200,000 people were involved in the accident, and 4,000 cases of thyroid cancer in children occurred. [| Chernobyl Accident] [|Health Impacts]

[|Chernobyl] Thyroid cancer is mostly linked with Chernobyl, but will not show up for at least 10 years. It might take 15-20 years to materialize. Some people that were children at the time, developed rogue antibodies, which fail to recognize the bodies own tissue, and attack it as if it’s a foreign infection. Zoe and Haley

Radiation Cancer Treatment
[|Radiation is energy that is carried by waves or a stream of particles. It can change the genes and some of the molecules of a cell. Genes control how cells grow and divide. Radiation can damage the genes of a cancer cell so that it cannot grow and divide any more. So radiation is used to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors.] Lindsey and Maggie

[|How Does Radiation Work to Treat Cancer?] Brian and Matt Horton

[|Cancer Radiation therapy, Principals of Radiation Therapy, What Is Ionizing Radiation, Types of Radiation Therapy, Strategies to Optimize Radiotherapy Response!] Maddy and Mallory

[|The Chemotherapy.com site] website we found is about how cancer spreads. It tells about treatments for cancer and depending on what type of cancer. It says that there is more then one type of treatment and that is partial remission;; This doesn’t make the cancer disappear it makes the cancer cells shrink. Another type of treatment is Neoadjuvant chemotherapy. This is to shrink tumors so there easier to remove or better to do for radiation. One other type is Adjuvant chemotherapy. This is to prevent the growth of stray cancer cells. To sum up my website it talks about the treatments and how there used to get rid of cancer cells or prevent them from growing. Kat and Rochelle

Background Radiation Exposure Sources
[|There are many sources of background radiation exposure. The radioactive substances in the Earth's crust emit radiation. Emanation of radioactive gases from the Earth also exposes us to radiation. Another source are cosmic rays from outer space. Even our body has radiation!]

**[|Yucca Mountain]**
[| The unique combination of rock characteristics and the deep water table make the Yucca Mountain site capable of isolating the spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste. The development of the planned Yucca Mountain repository, EPA’s single role is to set human health and environmental radiation protection standards. The repository will not be allowed to open unless it meets EPA’s requirements. Emily, Camy, and Brenna]

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