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There are no unnatural levels of radioactivity at a former Navy research facility at Camp Lejeune or near a rifle range at the base where material from the laboratory was buried decades ago, according to an analysis conducted for the military.
Radioactive traces have now been found on two British Airways passenger planes currently grounded at London’s Heathrow Airport, the UK Home Office announced on Wednesday. Three other planes, also suspected of contamination, are now being examined, on Thursday.
In transportation, road traffic contributes the most to global warming, aviation is second, railways are negligible and shipping actually has a net cooling effect on the earth's climate, according to a study published recently.
If chemicals were people, uranium dioxide would be the guy standing alone with his drink at a party. The world's most commonly used radioactive substance--and its heaviest natural element--clutches its two oxygen atoms so tightly, it almost never reacts with other compounds.
Alarms over international nuclear smuggling were raised last night when Slovak police announced that three men had been arrested in Slovakia and Hungary after allegedly trying to sell a kilogram of radioactive material.
A record number of incidents where low-level nuclear material has been lost in Canada has officials in that country and the United States concerned that terrorists are possibly preparing for an attack with a "dirty bomb."
Congolese authorities arrested six people in connection with the dumping of tons of highly radioactive minerals into a river near the southeastern town of Likasi, the environment minister said on Friday.
The man who served the tea that poisoned Alexander Litvinenko told today of his fears for his own safety.
Olympic chiefs have discovered radioactive contamination on the Games site. Hotspots of the highly poisonous heavy metal radium-226 were discovered near Stratford.
The authorities in Ukraine have approved a giant steel cover for the radioactive site of the world's worst nuclear disaster - Chernobyl.
Far from the everyday world occupied by such common elements such as gold and lead lies a little-understood realm inhabited by radioactive, or unstable, elements.
Zoe, le soda atomique. Donne une energie infinie, comme la pile atomique!
Many scientists believe that cancer deaths among smokers are due to the radioactive content of tobacco leaves and not to nicotine and tar
"Al-Qaida leaders in Iraq are planning a mass-casualty attack against British and other western targets, possibly with radioactive-dispersal weapons, according to a secret British security intelligence assessment.
"No Nukes" was once a familiar rallying cry for environmentalists opposed to nuclear power and all its scary risks. With global warming a rising concern, some environmentalists are rethinking nuclear power because it emits zero greenhouse gases.
United States Government today admitted that its employees working at nuclear weapons facilities were under the risk of contracting cancer as a result of residual radioactive contamination [ GPO].
David Harner pulled on a fitted Lycra outfit with thin tubes snaking around his body carrying cold water. He attached pencil-thin monitoring devices to his thighs, biceps, chest and back. Co-workers helped him into a red rubber suit and a helmet attached to an oxygen line. Mr.
The autopsy of Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko may be a dangerous procedure as up to half the Polonium 210 ingested will still be present in the body.
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Radioactive, cancer-causing tritium has leaked into the groundwater beneath the San Onofre nuclear power plant, prompting the closure of one drinking-water well in southern Orange County, authorities said.
Health physicists are establishing safe procedures for a promising experimental brain-cancer therapy which uses a radioactive version of a protein found in scorpion venom.
Last week, the U.S. military placed an order for $38 million in depleted uranium rounds... The U.S.
Avoidable mortality (excess mortality) is the difference between the ACTUAL deaths in a country and the deaths EXPECTED for a peaceful, well-administered country with the same demographics.
The real "24." A real US CTU boss told Londers that a boiological terror attack in the West is inevitable. He credited the war on terror with slowing Al-Qaida attack plans. Oh, and he says bin Laden is still alive.
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