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This dome in the Pacific houses tons of radioactive waste – and it’s leaking
The Runit Dome in the Marshall Islands is a hulking legacy of years of US nuclear testing. Now locals and scientists are warning that rising sea levels caused by climate change could cause 111,000 cubic yards of debris to spill into the ocean.
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Is your fear of radiation irrational?
Radioactivity stirs primal fears in many people, but Geoff Watts argues that an undue sense of its risks can cause real harm.
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The First Light of Trinity
Seventy years ago, the flash of a nuclear bomb illuminated the skies over Alamogordo, New Mexico. What did it look like? By Alex Wellerstein.
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SL-1: Murder by Nuclear Reactor
There have been three nuclear power plant meltdowns that have captured worldwide attention and left the general public with the opinion that nuclear power is too dangerous to rely upon...
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Built for Eternity
When humanity plans on a geologic time scale. By Elmo Keep.
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The Bomb Didn’t Beat Japan… Stalin Did
Have 70 years of nuclear policy been based on a lie? By Ward Wilson.
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Thermonuclear Art – The Sun In Ultra-HD
NASA Goddard. (4K)
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A Photographer Visits Fukushima
Inside Fukushima's nuclear disaster exclusion zone. By Arkadiusz Podniesinski. (Sept.)
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Here be dragons
Reading about the various radiation hazards in the Manhattan Project's history can be spine-tingling, even with a measured view of the dangers. By Alex Wellerstein. (Nov. 20)
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Revisiting South Africa’s Bomb
“At the time of South Africa’s decision to abandon its nuclear weapons program, the South African bomb was already small enough to arm both the H2 and South Africa’s ballistic missile under development. And, perhaps not so surprisingly, remnants of this program showed up on the market for export to places like Pakistan.” By Jeffrey Lewis. (Dec. 3)
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Inside the Institutions for the Chernobyl Victims Forgotten by Society
In her photo series "The Invisible People of Belarus," photographer Jadwiga Bronte explored the effects of the Chernobyl disaster on the people of Belarus, specifically those living in governmental institutions called "internats." These institutions are part asylum, part orphanage, and part hospice... By Tom Usher.
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Nuclear Plant Leak Threatens Drinking Water Wells in Florida
A finding that a Florida nuclear power plant is leaking polluted water has environmentalists threatening to sue over the safety of Biscayne Bay and the surrounding ecosystem. By Lizette Alvarez.
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Surprise nuclear strike? Here’s how we’ll figure out who did it
Post-detonation forensics may help provide answers if the nuclear nightmare becomes a reality. By Richard Stone. (Mar. 11)
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The Battle of Chernobyl (2006)
Thomas Johnson
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‘Catastrophic’ event at Hanford prompts emergency response
A leak in a massive nuclear waste storage tank at the Hanford Site has expanded significantly, KING 5 learned this [before last] weekend. Crews at Hanford lowered a camera into the two-foot-wide space between the tank’s inner and outer walls on Sunday and discovered 8.4 inches of radioactive and chemically toxic waste. (Apr. 18) [Autoplay video]
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How Writers Have Tried to Make Sense of Chernobyl
Thirty years later, the best works written about the accident express profound doubts about language's ability to capture the disaster's magnitude. By Michael LaPointe.
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The Ghosts of Fukushima
Can a town devastated by a nuclear disaster be brought back to life? By Steve Featherstone. (June 20, 2016)
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Radiation From Ancient Supernovae May Have Given Evolution an Astrophysical Push
High-energy cosmic rays mean an increase in cellular mutations, for good and bad. By Michael Byrne.
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‘The graveyard of the Earth’: inside City 40, Russia’s deadly nuclear secret
Ozersk, codenamed City 40, was the birthplace of the Soviet nuclear weapons programme. Now it is one of the most contaminated places on the planet – so why do so many residents still view it as a fenced-in paradise? By Samira Goetschel.
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Could this be the first nuclear-powered airliner?
A supersonic airliner that flies at three times the speed of sound – and runs on nuclear fusion. Stephen Dowling investigates the challenges of making airliners run on atomic power.
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