Strontium Chemical Element Strontium is a chemical element with symbol Sr and atomic number 38.

An alkaline earth metal, strontium is a soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element that is highly reactive chemically. The metal turns yellow when it is exposed to air. Wikipedia Symbol: Sr Electron configuration: Kr 5s2 Atomic number: 38 Electrons per shell: 2,8,18,8,2 Atomic mass: 87.62 0.01 u Discoverer: William Cruickshank

Atlantic bluefin tuna Fish The Atlantic bluefin tuna is a species of tuna in the Scombridae family. It is variously known as the northern bluefin tuna, giant bluefin tuna and formerly as the tunny. Wikipedia Scientific name: Thunnus thynnus Rank: Species Higher classification: Thunnus

Bottlenose Dolphin Animal Bottlenose dolphins, the genus Tursiops, are the most common and well-known members of the family Delphinidae, the family of oceanic dolphin. Wikipedia Scientific name: Tursiops Rank: Genus

Higher classification: Oceanic dolphin Lower classifications: Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin, Common bottlenose dolphin

Measles (also known as morbilli, English measles, or rubeola not to be confused with rubella) is an infection of the respiratory system caused by a virus, specifically a paramyxovirus of the genus Morbillivirus. Morbilliviruses, like other paramyxoviruses, are enveloped, single-stranded, negative-sense RNA viruses. Symptoms include fever, cough, runny nose, red eyes and a

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The nuclear fission process produces large amounts of radioactive isotopes, and some of the isotopes have rather long half-lives. Those isotopes are safe only after ten half-lives, which presents a problem when dealing with the waste products of a fission reactor. Nuclear waste is divided into low-level and high-level material, based on the amount of radioactivity being emitted.

The nuclear industry has reinvented itself as an environmentally friendly option, producing electricity without the air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions of coal, oil or gas. But there are a number of concerns with relying on nuclear power as an environmentally and financially viable option. Nuclear power creates radioactive waste for which there is no accepted method of safely managing or storing. It is also prohibitively expensive. Power plants can also leak hazardous materials. For example, Pickering reactor #4 had a heavy water leak in April 1996 that released radioactive tritium into Lake Ontario, contaminating drinking water supplies.

Why choose this issue :

This issue attracts me to study about it. A country like Japan loves to generate energy using nuclear power of course has his own reason. Nuclear power is experiencing a revival due to growing concerns about climate change. Nuclear technology can provide energy without the air pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions produced by fossil fuels. Nuclear power plants have certain advantages for example no fossil fuels are burned, and there are no combustion products, such as carbon dioxide, sulphur dioxide, and so on, to pollute the

environment. Well, every good thing has its bad sides too. Like two major problems are associated with nuclear power plants are like accidents imperil the peoples safety and the disposal of nuclear waste. And the largest and currently unresolved environmental problem concerns nuclear waste.

The virus infects the lungs and the brain, causing pneumonia and abnormal behaviour, and is usually fatal. It also causes lesions on the skin, mouth, joints and lungs. Earlier this month, NOAA declared an "unusual mortality event" so it could provide extra funds to investigate the deaths. Thirty-two of 33 dolphins tested have been confirmed positive or are suspected of dying from morbillivirus. But authorities say there is little they can do to stop the spread of the virus.

Based on what happened in the 1980s, officials believe the disease and strandings will spread south and last through the spring of 2014 told by Teri Rowles from National Marine Mammal Stranding Coordinator with NOAA Fisheries.
Officials say in time the dolphins will become more resistant to the disease, just as they have before.

Ill choose this issue as my project is because endangered dolphins are a huge concern in our actual society. I wish to take the chance to know more about why is it a problem. When such species like the dolphin is endangered, it means that if this situation is not dealt with properly, soon we might see their species disappear from our oceans. We must look into the problem seriously. I agree with what the researchers said in the content of the article about those infected dolphins would build up their immunity by their own selves. There is still no way for the virologists to inject any antibodies for them. They have to build up antibodies by themselves. The first reason is since both tuna and dolphins follow the same routes, dolphins get caught in the fishermen's nets which are meant to catch tuna. In this case, they get fatally hurt or they drown as a result of it. The last but not least is pollution. Since humans are polluting rivers, seas and oceans, it affects dolphins. Also, since the dolphin is at the top of the food chain, the chemicals that pollute its habitat

create the highest level of concentration of these pollutants in its body. As a result, diseases, difficulty to reproduce or even death take their toll on these species.

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The Main Ideas and Supporting Details : Article 1: 1. A virus related to human measles is likely to blame for the mass die-off of bottlenose dolphins along the East Coast. It could affect the species until next year based on the last outbreak. 333 dead or sickly bottlenose dolphins have washed up from North Carolina to New York.

174 of those dead dolphins have come from Virginia.

2. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) had already declared it an "unusual mortality event" The officials had been taking samples from dead dolphins to investigate the cause. 32 of 33 samples tested for morbillivirus were either suspect (25 cases) or confirmed positive (seven cases)

3. Dolphin morbillivirus is related to other morbilliviruses that can cause measles in people or canine distemper in dogs. But the pathogens are unlikely to spill over to other species. Dolphins catch the disease through direct contact with infected dolphins and respiratory particles, or those particles that travel through the respiratory tract from the air dolphins breathe. Infected animals may develop lesions, brain infections and pneumonia, as well as secondary bacterial, viral and/or fungal infections.

4. The disease and strandings will spread south and last through the spring of 2014. - said by Teri Rowles, National Marine Mammal Stranding Coordinator with NOAA Fisheries, said during a conference call where how they expect the situation to be.

5. Morbillivirus began with a young population that was born after the 1987/1988 outbreak. - These generations born dolphins had no natural defences against the disease. - As the outbreak progresses, the dolphins that survive will build up immunity and it will probably end when the number of susceptible animals dwindles.

6. The researchers say they are investigating other factors that may have made the animals more susceptible to the virus.

- The officials will test for contaminants to see if dolphins with high levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) or other man-made toxins were affected more severely.

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a virus related to human measles is likely to blame for the mass die-off of bottlenose dolphins along the East Coast. A1 tons of radioactive water leaked to date from a storage tank at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan is raising new concerns about the safety of seafood from the region. A2

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Did you notice that reflective writing requires personal language? Hopefully you also realised that, as much as possible, it is important to minimise the use of the word I. Instead, use connotation (the emotion or vibe of a word) and modality (degree of meaning) to offer your opinions.