radioactivity

  • Wild Images Show Scientists Training Robots to Clean Up Chernobyl’s Waste

    Wild Images Show Scientists Training Robots to Clean Up Chernobyl’s Waste

    Robots could someday help dispose of nuclear waste. Scientists from the University of Bristol working on the problem recently paid a visit to some of the most contaminated places at the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear facility to further this goal. The researchers are helping develop new technologies, including using a Boston Dynamics robot dog to deal…


  • Fukushima’s Contaminated Wastewater Could Be Too Risky to Dump in the Ocean

    Fukushima’s Contaminated Wastewater Could Be Too Risky to Dump in the Ocean

    Almost a decade ago, the Tohoku-oki earthquake and tsunami triggered an explosion at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, causing the most severe nuclear accident since Chernobyl and releasing an unprecedented amount of radioactive contamination in the ocean. In the years since, there’s been a drawn out cleanup process, and water radiation levels around the…