An example of manufactured risk is the:
A) pummeling of Florida by four hurricanes in 2004
B) 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear disaster in Pennsylvania
C) November 10, 1975, wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald in Lake Superior
D) release of smog and toxic gases by the eruption of Washington State's Mount St. Helens in 1980 and 2004

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Manufactured risks are those that result from human activities or technologies, rather than natural events. The 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear disaster is an example of a manufactured risk, as it was a result of human error and technological failure in a nuclear power plant.

An Example of Manufactured Risk Is The