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12/21/2011 | News
Through
a combination of time-lapse live imaging and mathematical modeling of a
special line of human breast cells, researchers have found evidence to
suggest that for low dose levels of ionizing radiation, cancer risks may
not be directly proportional to dose. This contradicts the standard
model for predicting biological damage from ionizing radiation
6/29/2011 | News
Los
Alamos, both the town and the laboratory of the same name, remains
evacuated as a major wildfire spreads has reached the roadway just
outside some of the laboratory’s property. Top lab officials and fire
managers said they're confident the flames won't reach key buildings or
areas where radioactive waste is stored, but some residents remained
concerned for the safety of their families and nearby communities.
6/20/2011 | News
According
to an extensive investigation by the Associated Press, federal
regulators have been working closely with the nuclear power industry to
keep the nation's aging reactors operating within safety standards by
repeatedly weakening those standards. The report claims that nuclear
regulatory officials have often decided original regulations are too
strict and has argued that safety margins could be eased without peril.
6/13/2011 | News
Two
Rutgers energy and environment researchers recently completed work on a
long-term study of consumers’ attitudes toward two high-profile energy
sources: coal and nuclear energy. Their work finds that while global
warming and safety do factor into Americans’ decisions on these two
forms of energy, other factors are at play that figure into their
choices.
5/24/2011 | News
Radioactive
iodine-129 has an extremely long half life of 15.7 million years, and
is one of the most significant long term nuclear waste hazards. A
researcher in England has found an easy way to lock up the slowly
decaying iodine by using a material that absorbs a microwave frequency
that iodine-129 does not.
5/24/2011 | News
Some
scientists have debated the actual severity of the nuclear power plant
incident at Fukushima Dai-ichi, but its impact on the ocean is no
question much greater than that of Chernobyl. Now, researchers at Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institution are starting to build a global database
of baseline levels of marine radionuclides so they can be more
accurately tracked in the future.
4/19/2011 | News
The
world's most seismically charged region is undergoing a nuclear
renaissance as it struggles to harness enough power for its huge
populations and booming economies. But China, Taiwan, India and several
other countries have made little use of new science to determine whether
these areas are safe. At least 32 plants in operation or under
construction in Asia are at risk of one day being hit by a tsunami,
nuclear experts and geologists warn.
3/23/2011 | News
The nuclear crisis
in Japan has laid bare an ever-growing problem for the United States — the
enormous amounts of still-hot radioactive waste accumulating at commercial
nuclear reactors in more than 30 states. A state-by-state study of numbers
obtained by the Associated Press finds that the U.S. has almost 71,862 tons of
radioactive waste, now stored at power-plant sites.
3/23/2011 | News
Last
week, Pacific Northwest National Lab was the first to detect
radioactive isotopes entering the continental United States. Though
levels of the detected materials, xenon-133, were extremely
low—less than one-millionth the daily dose of background
radiation—the technology proved the sensitivity of two
instruments originally developed to help enforce nuclear weapon testing
bans. One of them won an R&D 100 Award in 1998.
3/17/2011 | News
Those
who have been evacuated from the site are considered safe, as are the
39 million people who live in the greater Tokyo region. But panic
continues, as supermarkets in nearby China have run out of staples such
as salt, and Russians have rushed to buy seaweed and red wine, a measure
Soviet authorities recommended after the Chernobyl explosion.
