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radiation

The fallout never ended

By Robert Alvarez | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Playing downwind of the Trinity test site on the day of the explosion, July 16, 1945

Collateral damage: American civilian survivors of the 1945 Trinity test

By Lesley M. M. Blume | Investigative Reporting, Nuclear Waste, Nuclear Weapons

Nuclear safety staffing in the United States: a crisis with no easy fix

By David Gillum, Itty Abraham, Kathleen M. Vogel | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Waste, Nuclear Weapons

chalkboard drawing cartoon bomb

Russia says Ukraine is preparing a “dirty bomb.” Is it true, and what does it mean?

By François Diaz-Maurin, Dan Drollette Jr | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

A close call at Ukraine reactor: On luck and nuclear disasters

By Maxime Polleri | Nuclear Risk, Opinion, Personal Essay

Dutch nuclear scientists determined that the Magnetix Sport boost bracelet is radioactive. RIJKSINSTITUUT VOOR VOLKSGEZONDHEID EN MILIEU.

“Anti-5G” jewelry and sleep masks are radioactive

By Susan D’Agostino | Nuclear Risk

A uranium mine.

Radiation illnesses and COVID-19 in the Navajo Nation

By Jayita Sarkar, Caitlin Meyer | Disruptive Technologies

1975: All in our time: A foul and awesome display

By Kenneth T. Bainbridge | Nuclear Risk

A firefighter on the first-response team in the five-part Chernobyl miniseries co-produced by HBO and Sky.

The next step in do-it-yourself radiation monitoring

By Dahyun Kang | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Voices of Tomorrow

Radiation risks are real. But no cause for radiophobia.

By Mark Wolverton | Analysis

An interactive model at the Decontamination Info Plaza in the city of Fukushima allows visitors to “decontaminate” a house and yard. Credit: Maxime Polleri

Teaching about radiation after Fukushima

By Maxime Polleri | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Voices of Tomorrow

New ways to detect nuclear misbehavior

By Katlyn M. Turner | Uncategorized