The air quality index

The air quality index

The air quality index (AQI) of a area means that how polluted or clean the air in a particular range is. It is measured to keep the negative health impacts when people come into the area with uncleaned air. The purposes of this blog are to introduce the air quality index (AQI) and compares the AQI in Cincinnati area and Cleveland area in Ohio, and show how air pollution might be controlled.

The air quality index is used to provide the public with an indication of the air quality in a local area on a daily basis. If focuses on health effects you may experience within a few hours or days after breathing polluted air.

We can find the data we need in the home page of the Ohioenvironment protection agency.

According to the application under the Ohio environmentprotection agency, both area in Cincinnati district and Cleveland have good air quality. Moreover, this does not imply that individuals in the district ought not take measures to control air pollution. With the guide of the government and the exertion of people's concerns, air pollution might be in a good control.

There are few suggestions for the control of the air pollution, Puja Mondal believed that there are 5 ways to protect the air environment health. Some of the effective methods to Control Air Pollution are as follows:

(a) Source Correction Methods: Industries make a major contribution towards causing air pollution. Formation of pollutants can be prevented and their emission can be minimised at the source itself.

(b) Pollution Control equipment: it becomes necessary to install pollution control equip­ment to remove the gaseous pollutants from the main gas stream.

(c) Diffusion of pollutant in air: Dilution of the contaminants in the atmosphere is another approach to the con­trol of air pollution.

(d) Vegetation: Plants contribute towards controlling air-pollution by utilizing carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen in the process of photosynthesis.

(e) Zoning: Zoning advocates setting aside of separate areas for industries so that they are far removed from the residential areas.

nuclear power plant

Nuclear plant in Japan

(Source: http://inhabitat.com/japanese-nuclear-plant-rocked-by-earthquake-nuclear-emergency-situation-declared/)

 

Perry Nuclear Power Plant

(source: http://www.lakecountyohio.gov/ema/Preparedness/Nuclear.aspx)

The purpose of this blogger is to explain what are the potential health effects from exposure to nuclear power plant leaks into the environment for Human, Animals, and Plants.

For humans, Kathryn Higley, director of the Oregon State University department of nuclear engineering and radiation health physics, expresses that As radioactive material decays, or separates, the vitality discharged into the environment has two methods for hurting human. It can straightforwardly kill cells, or it can make changes DNA. On the off chance that those transformations are not repaired, the cell might turn cancerous.

Radioactive iodine tends to be absorbed by the thyroid gland and can cause thyroid cancer, said Dr. Lydia Zablotska, an assistant professor in the department of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco.

Children are most at risk for thyroid cancer, since their thyroid glands are 10 times smaller than those of adults. For Children, there are many ways they can get the radioactive effective. For example, Children were exposed to radioactive material mainly from eating contaminated leafy vegetables and dairy. There have been no detectable health effects from exposure to radioactive cesium after the accident.

Animals are particularly susceptible to radiation exposure. New studies around the Chornobyl reactor accident site have found reduced numbers of certain species and impacts to genetics.

Specialists looked at monkeys from two districts of Japan, one gathering of monkeys from the Shimokita locale, 400 Km north of Fukushima and monkeys from polluted area in Fukushima.

"Fukushima monkeys had significantly low white and red blood cell counts, hemoglobin, and hematocrit, and the white blood cell count in immature monkeys showed a significant negative correlation with muscle cesium concentration. These results suggest that the exposure to some form of radioactive material contributed to hematological changes in Fukushima monkeys."