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New technology
Technology helps reduce nuclear waste at the plant by 80%.
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%.
History
The ancient Romans used radioactive substances to make... decorations?
Artisans in ancient Rome created masterpieces of art without knowing its composition including its extremely dangerous radioactive components.
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Death watches in 1920: the manipulator does not die and is disabled
Have you ever thought about wearing a watch only to make yourself in danger? This will happen, if your watch was built in the United States in the 1920s.
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Where is the all-time nuclear submarine buried?
When nuclear submarines are no longer in use, experts will dismantle them in a complicated and time-consuming process.
Scientific application
Two students built equipment to record nuclear radiation sources
According to scientific studies, more than 70% of radioactive substances enter the human body through food and equipment around us.
Scientific application
Application of radioactive substances in Medicine and Biology
Today we often hear about radioactive substances killing people or victims of cancer because radioactive material comes from nuclear weapons tests ... However, that radi…
Environment
Radiation reduction with corn cobs
Researchers from the sunrise country found that activated carbon, produced from corn cobs, is effective in absorbing radioactive substances, heavy metals and pesticides.…
Environment
Japan seeks to reduce radiation levels in Fukushima
The Fukushima government reduced the level of radiation to 30 to 50% in the process of detoxifying forests, residential areas, agricultural and road zones and striving t…
Environment
Again leaking radioactive water at the Fukushima plant 1
Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) said it has detected about 10 liters of water containing Strontium radioactivity that has been leaked from the water treatment facil…
Environment
Russia seized radioactive material about to send to Iran
A package of radioactive isotopes for research and medical purposes was seized at an airport in Moscow, when it was about to leave for Iran.
Environment
Radiation from Japan continues to escape to the ocean
Waste water containing radioactive materials from Japan's Fukushima I nuclear power plants leaked to the Pacific Ocean.
Environment
Radioactive substances from Japan travel around the world
Japanese scientists say most of the radioactive material released from the Fukushima nuclear power plant has fallen into the sea and circulated around the planet.
Environment
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.
Environment
Japanese nuclear power plant needs 30 years to
An expert panel of the Japan Atomic Energy Commission concluded that the Fukushima nuclear power plant could only stop completely after at least three decades.