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What is pre-war steel, and why are people stealing it?
Dredging up treasure from sunken ships is an ancient tradition, but, it turns out, some treasure, like per-war steel, is precious for different reasons.
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The people who moved to Chernobyl
The Chernobyl nuclear disaster left a ring of ghost villages as residents fled fearing radiation poisoning. But now people are choosing to live in the crumbling houses on the edge of the exclusion zone. By Zhanna Bezpiatchuk.
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What Happened At The Santa Susana Nuclear Site During The Woolsey Fire?
The site is riddled with radioactive waste and toxic compounds. Where does it all go during a fire? By Elina Shatkin
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Officials: Ronald Reagan LSD probe bigger than you think, 14 nuke sailors snagged
Fourteen sailors from the Ronald Reagan’s nuclear reactor department face discipline in connection to hallucinogenic drug abuse, officials said. By Geoff Ziezulewicz.
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Half-life
Chad Walde believed in his work at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Then he got a rare brain cancer linked to radiation, and the government denied it had any responsibility.
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Russians
Sting
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In Search of a Bigger Boom
What drove Edward Teller to push for a 10,000 megaton hydrogen bomb? By Alex Wellerstein. (Sept. 12, 2012)
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Krzysztof Penderecki's Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Krzysztof Urbański conducting
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How to Start a Nuclear War
The increasingly direct road to ruin. By Andrew Cockburn.
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How quickly could Canada build an atomic bomb?
We’ve got the uranium, the know-how and a sudden desire to be respected by our nearest neighbour. By Tristin Hopper. [Autoplay]
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Fukushima Uncensored
BBC
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Obama reacts to Trump's pullout from Iran nuclear deal
Ex-US president says leaving Iran nuclear deal, which is clearly working, turns Washington's back on its closest allies.
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Here come the bombs
The making of Threads, the nuclear war film that shocked a generation. By Jude Rogers.
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The Worsening Cosmic Ray Situation
Cosmic rays are bad–and they’re getting worse. (Mar. 5, 2018)
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'Citizen scientists' track radiation seven years after Fukushima
Beneath the elegant curves of the roof on the Seirinji Buddhist temple in Japan's Fukushima region hangs an unlikely adornment: a Geiger counter collecting real-time radiation readings... By Sara Hussein.
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Injustice At Sea: the Irradiated Sailors of the USS Reagan
American sailors on the USS Ronald Reagan were exposed to radiation from Fukushima. Many are sick. Some have died. Why can’t they get justice? By Linda Pentz Gunter.
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This Strange Species That Lives Off Nuclear Energy Is Like Alien Life on Earth
When you're trying to figure out what alien life might look like, it makes sense to be looking in the most extreme environments Earth has available. By Michelle Starr.
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Why Trump might bend nuclear security rules to help Saudi Arabia build reactors in the desert
The push to provide nuclear power to Saudi Arabia has divided U.S. policymakers. By Steven Mufson.
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Trump’s Nuke Plan Raising Alarms Among Military Brass
They say strategy led by DoD policy wonks could lead to dangerous nuclear escalation. By Mark Perry.
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Fukushima heroes still fighting effects of radiation, stress and guilt
Following the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami of 2011, selfless Japanese workers battled nuclear-reactor meltdown, and thousands of US troops provided disaster relief. Today, many are counting the cost to their mental and physical health. By Rob Gilhooly.
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