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Lawmaker sounds alarm over hazards at nuclear power plant: 'Facing serious threats to their lives'

A senior Indian lawmaker is raising an alarm over plans to store radioactive waste at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project, ...
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Why Bavaria’s Boars Are More Radioactive Than Chernobyl’s Wolves

Wild boars roaming the forests of Bavaria have become the focus of a scientific mystery: in some cases, they carry higher ...
Science Daily

Targeted cancer therapies: Getting radioactive atoms to accumulate in tumors

Compounds containing astatine-211 (211At) can be used in targeted radiotherapies for prostate cancer, but deastatination in the body remains a significant hurdle. Now, researchers have developed a new ...
Newsweek

Why German Wild Boars Have Become Radioactive

Many of the wild boars roaming across central Europe are so radioactive that they are dangerous to eat, and it's down to a combination of nuclear weapons testing and the Chernobyl disaster. Previously ...
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Measuring individual radioactive decays enables faster detection method for nuclear applications

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a new and faster method for detecting and measuring the radioactivity of minuscule amounts of radioactive ...
People

Radioactive Wasp Nest Poses No Threat After Workers Discovered It at Site Where U.S. Nuclear Bombs Were Made

The nest was found at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton South Carolina workers discovered a radioactive wasp nest at the site of a facility that used to make nuclear ...
Futurism

Workers Find Radioactive Wasp Nest at Nuclear Facility, But the Wasps Are Missing

Employees at the site in South Carolina where the US used to construct nuclear weapons have discovered a highly radioactive wasp nest. As CBS News reports, staff at the Savannah River Site (SRS) ...
FOX 10 Phoenix

Radioactive wasp nest found at former nuclear weapons site

A wasp nest found in South Carolina had radiation levels 10 times higher than what’s allowed by federal regulators. It was spotted at a site that used to make key parts for nuclear weapons. Officials ...
NBC Connecticut

Radioactive wasp nest found at site where U.S. once made nuclear bombs

Workers at a site in South Carolina that once made key parts for nuclear bombs in the U.S. have found a radioactive wasp nest but officials said there is no danger to anyone. Employees who routinely ...
Men's Journal

Radioactive Wasp Nest Found at Cold War Era Nuclear Weapons Facility

What sounds like the plot of a low-budget horror film came to life in Aiken, South Carolina, in early July. Radiological Control Operations employees at the Savannah River Site found a radioactive ...
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Kix cereal once offered 'Atomic Bomb Ring' with radioactive material as a promotion?

In 1947, Kix cereal ran a promotion for an "Atomic Bomb Ring" that contained radioactive polonium-210, one of the deadliest radioactive substances known to man. Rating: True (About this rating?) ...
New Atlas

Nuclear waste: What is it and how do we dispose of it?

Nuclear waste. We've all heard about it, but what is it? Is it a problem without a solution? How big is the problem? And what exactly is this waste and why is it so important? New Atlas takes a look ...