Radiation is often described as something dangerous, mysterious, or connected only to nuclear accidents and weapons, News.Az ...

Glass is a chemically durable wasteform for immobilizing radioactive waste. However, high levels of radioactivity generated by glassy wasteforms will persist over extensive time scales, requiring long ...

Radiation emergencies are rare, but when they occur they generate fear, confusion, and a flood of misinformation. Nuclear accidents, attacks on ...

In this lesson, students will investigate the nature of radioactivity and the effect of both distance and shielding materials on different radioactive sources using a Geiger-Muller tube with a counter ...

There are many factors to consider when saying “radioactivity is hazardous.” Here is an attempt to summarize them in five points. Radiation is not an age-old reality; in fact, the discovery of ...

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