radiobiology
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Nuclear Weapons Partly Responsible for Radioactive Wild Boars, Researchers Say
You read that correctly. A team of scientists just tested wild boar meat from Southern Germany and found that radioactivity in the boars stemmed from nuclear weapons testing, rather than the Chernobyl power plant disaster of 1986. The Chernobyl disaster occurred due to a power plant meltdown in Pripyat, Ukraine, which resulted in a huge…
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A U.S. Elementary School Near a Nuclear Dump Site Is Teeming With Radioactivity
Dangerous, radioactive particles are all over an elementary school in suburban St. Louis, according to a recently published analysis by Boston Chemical Data Corp.
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The Fallout TV Show Casts Walton Goggins as Its Leading Ghoul
Although various people have been trying to make some form of live-action entertainment out of the hit Fallout video game series for years, none of these projects have even gotten far enough along to ever hire someone to star in the dang thing. Well, until today, when it was announced that Walton Goggins will be…
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Missions to Mars Shouldn’t Exceed Four Years Due to Radiation Risks, Scientists Say
An international collaboration of scientists say it’s safe for astronauts to fly to Mars and back, provided the length of the mission does not exceed four years and that crewed flights to the Red Planet coincide with a well-known solar cycle.