News tagged with radioactive environment

Tokyo 'not doing enough' for Fukushima: Greenpeace

Fukushima's residents are being left to their fate and not enough is being done to protect them against radiation nine months after Japan's tsunami, environment group Greenpeace said Wednesday.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Japan firm unveils robot suit for nuclear workers

The Japanese maker of an exoskeleton robot suit to assist walking on Monday unveiled a model that could help nuclear workers weighed down by heavy anti-radiation vests in contaminated zones.

Electronics / Robotics

created Nov 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Recipe for radioactive compounds aids nuclear waste and fuel storage pools studies

(PhysOrg.com) -- Easy-to-follow recipes for radioactive compounds like those found in nuclear fuel storage pools, liquid waste containment areas and other contaminated aqueous environments have been developed ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Solving the mystery of how plants survive near Chernobyl

Twenty-two years after the Chernobyl nuclear power station accident in the Ukraine — the worst in history — scientists are reporting insights into the mystery of how plants have managed to adapt and survive ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 13, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (15) | comments 2




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New study provides baseline measurements of carbon in Arctic Ocean

Scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have conducted a new study to measure levels of carbon at various depths in the Arctic Ocean. The study, recently published in the journal Biogeosciences, provid ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

MAJORANA, the search for the most elusive neutrino of all

(Phys.org) -- In a cavern almost a mile underground in the Black Hills, an experiment called the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR, 40 kilograms of pure germanium crystals enclosed in deep-freeze cryostat modules, will ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 17 | with audio podcast

Lunar boom: Why we'll soon be mining the moon

As history has repeatedly shown, where there are valuable minerals to be unearthed, adventurous humans will arrive in droves – even if it means battling extreme conditions and risking life and limb.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 16, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 4

US science group says it's time to start burying plutonium

(Phys.org) -- As researchers the world over continue to try to find a way to meet the energy needs of an over populated planet, negative consequences for choices already made continue to pile up. Global warming ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 10, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (10) | comments 70 | with audio podcast report

Yellowstone 'super-eruption' less super, more frequent than thought

The Yellowstone "super-volcano" is a little less super—but more active—than previously thought.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

New detector design improves gamma-ray measurements

(Phys.org) -- In the pursuit of precision measurements, nothing is simple, even when the apparatus employed appears to be utterly uncomplicated. An instructive case in point is the new ionization chamber used ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists track radioactive iodine from Japan nuclear reactor meltdown

Using a new investigative methodology, Dartmouth researchers have found and tracked radioactive iodine in New Hampshire from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Team releases findings from 2011 cruise to measure the concentration, distribution, and impacts of Fukushima radiation

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international research team is reporting the results of a research cruise they organized to study the amount, spread, and impacts of radiation released into the ocean from the tsunami-crippled ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Sediment sleuthing: Radioactive medicine being tracked through rivers

A University of Delaware oceanographer has stumbled upon an unusual aid for studying local waterways: radioactive iodine. Trace amounts of the contaminant, which is used in medical treatments, are entering ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

New paper describes method for cleaning up nuclear waste

While the costs associated with storing nuclear waste and the possibility of it leaching into the environment remain legitimate concerns, they may no longer be obstacles on the road to cleaner energy.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 16 | with audio podcast


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