nuclear physics
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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…
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Radioactive Fallout From Cold War Nuclear Tests Is Still Creeping Into U.S. Honey
A spring break assignment for geology students has resulted in the discovery of radioactive isotopes in honey produced along the U.S. East Coast, and at levels higher than expected. The amount of radiation isn’t considered dangerous, but the finding points to the drawn-out legacy of nuclear tests done during the Cold War.
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How Physicists Measured The Rarest Event Ever Directly Observed
This past week, scientists announced that they’d made an incredible physics observation using a vat of liquid xenon. It’s officially the rarest nuclear decay — and really, the rarest event of any kind — ever directly measured.
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Human Bone Fragment Reveals Radiation Exposure From Hiroshima Bombing
A technique originally intended for dating archaeological artefacts has been used to estimate the amount of radiation produced by the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan in 1945. It marks the first time a bone fragment from a victim of the explosion has been used successfully for such an analysis.