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Hungary may be a source of radioactive emissions in Europe
Air iodine-131 radioisotopes in many European countries may have spread from a research institute in Hungary.
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Radioactive substances appear in Europe
Officials in some European countries have reported that they have detected a radioactive isotope in the air but have not found a source.
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Alarms from nuclear power plants in the US: Contaminated water leaks into the environment
The US Congress alarmed that three-quarters of the 65 nuclear power plants in the United States are experiencing radioactive water leaking to the outside environment for…
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Japan temporarily stopped cleaning contaminated water
On June 18, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) forced a halt to the contaminated water cleanup campaign at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant just five hours af…
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48 US nuclear power plants leak tritium
Tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen, has leaked into groundwater from at least 48 of the 65 nuclear power plants in the United States.
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Radioactivity in rainwater has almost fallen
Information from the Ministry of Science and Technology confirmed that radioactive isotope concentrations in rainwater in Vietnam have decreased to almost negligible lev…
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Radiation detection in leaves in Hanoi
A monitoring station of the Vietnam Atomic Energy Institute yesterday discovered radioactive concentrations in leaves in Hanoi, in small amounts, do not affect human hea…
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There are 5 points in Vietnam that detect radioisotopes
Has detected radioactive iodine in the air in Ninh Thuan, HCMC. In Hanoi also detected radioactive isotopes Cs-137, but did not affect human health.
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Ancient climate change: palm trees give way to spruce
For climatologists, part of the challenge to predict the future is to find out exactly what happened in the past periods of global climate change.
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Helium isotopes promise geothermal energy
In a tour of the northern western US intertidal basin, the geochemist Mack Kennedy of the Department of Energy, the Arizona Lawrence National Laboratory and Matthijs Van…
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Open the secret of volcanic eruptions in the past
An American and French research team has developed a method that is able to determine the impact of volcanic eruptions in the past on the climate and chemistry of the hi…
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The primitive oceans have very hot temperatures!
According to a French study published in Nature that confirms a controversial hypothesis for 30 years: 2 to 3.5 billion years ago, the average temperature in the oceans…
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Read the history of the storm through the tree
Oxygen extracted from the age ring on the trunk will help answer whether the storms are getting stronger and appear more often, US researchers said.
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Ice layers at Mount Angola, memorandum of rainfall
According to studies conducted by French and Bolivian scientists, the ice sheets on the Mount Estonian do not store data like those found in Antarctic ice sheets. The co…
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Change the latest periodic table of elements
The atomic mass of 10 elements in the periodic system of tables including hydrogen, lithium, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, silicon, sulfur, chlorine and thallium is still kn…