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Half of Fukushima children are radioactive
Nearly a quarter of the medical samples of children living in areas of radioactive contamination from the Fukushima nuclear power plant (Japan) give positive results for…
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Environment
Japan uses sunflower plants to decontaminate soil
Japan is recruiting volunteers to plant sunflowers in Fukushima Prefecture and turn this flower into a symbol of the revival after the nuclear incident.
Environment
Vietnam sea water contaminated with radiation?
Scientists assert that the time of Vietnam's sea water is not exposed to radioactivity and marine life in the territory of Vietnam is not affected.
Science Events
What to do when radioactive contamination?
Repeated explosions of nuclear reactors happened in Japan. The level of radiation in some areas is higher than normal. Not only are Japanese people panicked, but residen…
Medicine - Health
Japan acknowledged the first death due to radiation at Fukushima
For the first time, Japan confirmed a worker working at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, once destroyed during the earthquake and tsunami more than 7 years ago, was ki…
Medicine - Health
New hope in treating radiation-infected patients
Exposure to high levels of radiation due to exposure to radioactive substances leaking from a nuclear power plant or from an atomic bomb explosion often causes serious d…
Medicine - Health
Fukushima children are exposed to radiation below the danger threshold
The NIRS team also produced the above calculation results through various data, including thyroid test results for about 1,000 children in Fukushima Prefecture, where th…
Medicine - Health
Compound helps increase survival after radiation exposure
The group of scientists from the Institute of Industrial Engineering Research in Tsukuba City, Ibaraki Prefecture, Eastern Japan, developed this kind of miraculous featu…
Medicine - Health
Fukushima children are tested for cancer periodically
Children living in a contaminated area from the Fukushima nuclear power plant (Japan) will receive periodic cancer screening throughout their lives.
Medicine - Health
What to drink to prevent radiation exposure?
People on the Japanese archipelago, are facing a threat of radioactive contamination. The authorities immediately distributed it to everyone in the danger zone of potass…
Medicine - Health
It is unclear what the unintended effects of radiation are
Radiation definitely causes thyroid cancer, which can cause leukemia. Too much radiation increases the risk of cancer in the years after exposure.