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Nuclear waste is radioactive waste created by nuclear power plants that no one wants to keep near their homes or even carried through their communities.
A lot of work needs to be done to find the radioactive lump, only 8mm long and 6mm in diameter, lost over a distance of 1,400km.
The chilling discovery of a huge amount of radioactive aluminium hitting the Solar System 4.6 billion years ago suggests the baby Earth had a narrow escape.
Chinese company Betavolt Technology claims to have successfully miniaturized a nuclear battery measuring 15 x 15 x 5mm, smaller than a coin, super durable and safe.
Astatine is the rarest naturally occurring element in the Earth's crust with less than 25 grams on the entire planet at any given time.
It is element 94 on the periodic table (Pu) and is one of the most dangerous elements on Earth.
Marie Curie died of aplastic anemia from working with radiation and her coffin was later discovered by excavators to be lined with 2.5 mm thick lead.
The cold and dry polar regions, the hot and water-poor desert regions, are considered inhospitable to most life on Earth.
Heat from planet formation, radioactive decay of some elements, and friction between layers keep the Earth's core at extremely high temperatures after 4.5 billion years.
The 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster not only left serious consequences for the environment and human health but also became a
A research team in the UK has created a carbon-14 diamond battery that can safely provide electricity with high durability for up to thousands of years.
Some animals are constantly reproducing, others are forced to evolve…
A scientist at the private fission company Transmutex has developed a new method that can reduce the radioactivity of nuclear waste by up to 80%.
The chemical element Promethium is one of the most difficult elements to study in the scientific world due to its high radioactivity and instability.
Before Vietnam could prepare these two drugs, cancer patients had to go abroad if they needed to use them.