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AI is continuing its assault on radiologists
A new model can detect abnormalities in x-rays better than radiologists—in some parts of the body, anyway.
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White House May Share Nuclear Power Technology With Saudi Arabia
The overture follows an intense and secretive lobbying push involving Michael Flynn, Tom Barrack, Rick Gates and even Iran-Contra figure Robert McFarlane. By Isaac Arnsdorf.
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The Strange and Gruesome Story of the Greenland Shark, the Longest-Living Vertebrate on Earth
How a triple infanticide in Germany shed light on an elusive cold-water predator. By M. R. O’Connor.
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I’m a nuclear armageddon survivor: Ask me anything
From the archives: A nuclear apocalypse is far more likely than a zombie outbreak. By Rupert Goodwins.
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Risky stalemate as science battles human fears at Fukushima
More than six years after a tsunami overwhelmed the Fukushima nuclear power plant, Japan has yet to reach consensus on what to do with a million tons of radioactive water, stored on site in around 900 large and densely packed tanks that could spill should another major earthquake or tsunami strike.
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Fifty-three year old nuclear missile accident revealed
“The warhead is no longer on top of the missile.” By Seth Tupper.
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These Women Are the Last Thing Standing Between You and Nuclear War
As tensions rise between the United States and North Korea, an elite squad of Air Force officers wait for the call the world hopes never comes. By Danielle McNally, with Photographs by Tyler Joe. (Sept. 8, 2017)
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This Is What Nuclear Weapons Leave in Their Wake
A remote area of Kazakhstan was once home to nearly a quarter of the world’s nuclear testing. The impact on its inhabitants has been devastating. By Alexandra Genova, photographs by Phil Hatcher-Moore.
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EPA Says Higher Radiation Levels Pose ‘No Harmful Health Effect’
In the event of a dirty bomb or a nuclear meltdown, emergency responders can safely tolerate radiation levels equivalent to thousands of chest X-rays, the Environmental Protection Agency said in new guidelines that ease off on established safety levels. By Ari Natter.
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Greenpeace fireworks shine light on French nuclear safety concerns
Greenpeace activists set off fireworks inside a nuclear plant in eastern France early Thursday after breaking into the facility to underline its vulnerability to attack. By Camille Bouissou.
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Atomic City
On January 3, 1961, a nuclear reactor the size of a small grain silo exploded in the Idaho desert, causing one of the only recorded nuclear fatalities on U.S. soil. By Justin Nobel.
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It Turns Out Glasses Don´t Make You Smarter
Donald Trump’s secretary of energy, Rick Perry, once campaigned to abolish the $30 billion agency that he now runs, which oversees everything from our nuclear arsenal to the electrical grid. The department’s budget is now on the chopping block. But does anyone in the White House really understand what the Department of Energy actually does? And what a horrible risk it would be to ignore its extraordinary, life-or-death responsibilities? By Michael Lewis.
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In the Grand Canyon, uranium mining threatens a tribe’s survival
The Havasupai are attempting to fight back against the operation of a uranium mine that they say could contaminate their sole water source. By Joanna Walters.
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A near-disaster at a federal nuclear weapons laboratory takes a hidden toll on America’s arsenal
Repeated safety lapses hobble Los Alamos National Laboratory’s work on the cores of U.S. nuclear warheads. By Patrick Malone.
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More than 30 nuclear experts inhale uranium after radiation alarms at a weapons site are switched off
Most were not told about it until months later, and other mishaps at the Nevada nuclear test site followed. By Patrick Malone, Peter Cary, R. Jeffrey Smith. Part Four of a series.
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To the stars by atom bomb: The incredible tale of the top secret Orion Project
While NASA was figuring out how to use rockets to reach the Moon, a super secret US government project was developing a gigantic reusable spaceship powered by atom bomb explosions that was designed to carry a crew of 20 to the outer Solar System by 1970. By David Szondy.
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The Workings of an Ancient Nuclear Reactor
Two billion years ago parts of an African uranium deposit spontaneously underwent nuclear fission. The details of this remarkable phenomenon are just now becoming clear. By Alex P. Meshik on (Jan. 26, 2009)
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Winners and Losers of the Recent Nuclear Holocaust
Goodbye Armageddon. Hello, Arma-mentum. By Dan Cluchey.
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How US nuclear force modernization is undermining strategic stability: The burst-height compensating super-fuze
Modernization, or first-strike capability? By Hans M. Kristensen, Matthew McKinzie, Theodore A. Postol.
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The Soviets Made A Real Doomsday Device In The ‘80s And The Russians Still Have It Today
You’ve all seen Dr. Strangelove, which means I’m pretty sure you understand the general idea behind a doomsday device: if you destroy us, we destroy you, no matter what. The concept of an automatic system that guarantees nuclear retaliation if a country is subjected to a nuclear attack has been part of the collective nuclear nightmare for decades. It’s not just a concept, though. Such a doomsday device exists, and it goes by the chilling name Dead Hand. By Jason Torchinsky.
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