NAD Flashcards
NAD?
Natural, Accidental and Deliberate
Natural?
Truly natural causes eg disease - black death, 1918 flu
NAtech
Natural event that leads to a technical issue, eg Fukishima (2011) - Tsunami leading to nuclear meltdown
Accident
happening by change, unexpectedly or unintentionally e.g. Deepwater Horizon (2010)
Deliberate
war, terrorism, sabotage etc - Ukraine (2022)
Deliberate Chem
Sarin on Japanese underground
Novochock of Skripols
Deliberate Bio
2001 - Anthrax letters
1978 - Markov ricin pellet
Deliberate radioactive
2006 - Litvinenko - Po 210 - half life 138 days
Deliberate nuclear
little boy - uranium gun-type; and
fat man - plutonium implosion
Accidental Chem
Bhopal - methyl isocyanate - 1984 - approx 4,000 dead, 700,000 affected
Accidental Bio
2001 - foot and mouth - £8bn
Accidental radioactive
Radium - 1917-1926
Accidental nuclear
1986 - Chernobyl - 50 dead and 4-100K additional cancer deaths
Accidental explosive
Halifax - 1917 -9,000 tons of hi ex fire and exploded - 2,000 dead, 9,000 injured