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“scans from ‘medicine’s new vision’ by howard sochurek (1988)”

From the first brick in 1950, to the terrible leak in 1957, to the vast complex that stands today, here is the story of Sellafield power plant

X-rays are a form of electromagnetic radiation that is used for medical imaging, treating cancer and even used for exploring the cosmos.

This "one-of-a-kind" structure weighing roughly 36,000 tons will take five days to slide into place above Chernobyl's reactor 4, the exact site of the meltdown. 30 years later, we're still dealing with the Chernobyl disaster, but it did lead us to improved safety features for nuclear power plants and better disaster preparedness.

In May 1972 in a uranium enrichment plant in France, scientists examining ore from a mine in Gabon, West Africa, discovered that a natural nuclear reactor had spontaneously manifested in that region in the Earth’s primordial past, churning out approximately 100 Kw worth of energy continuously for a few hundred thousand years about 1.7 billion years ago. In order to [...]

Not all types of radiation are deadly, but they can damage cells in high doses. Here are three of the most commonly used detectors and a brief explanation of how they work.

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