Radiation is fascinating. In the early years after its discovery it caused untold horrors and life altering changes to those who knew no better.
Glow in the Dark: What are the Dangers of Radioactivity?
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Nuclear Fake News: What Was The Huemul Project?
Harnessing the power of stars has, quite predictably, not been easy. Ever since Arthur Eddington first described nuclear fusion in the 1920's, we have been looking to harness its potential. Thirty years after this discovery, on a small island in a lake in Argentina, the world would be sold fusion in a bottle.
The First Lives Claimed by the Hydrogen Bomb: What was Lucky Dragon 5?
The Japanese may have believed they were at the end of nuclear weapons incidents at the hands of the Americans, but less than a decade since the Japanese surrender, there was another first in Japan. The world's first death from a hydrogen bomb.
Britain’s Chernobyl: What Was The Windscale Fire?
The International Nuclear Event Scale lists around six nuclear disasters at the top end of its Level 1 to Level 7 categorising system. At the top of this scale, Level 7, of course, sits the now infamous Chernobyl and Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disasters occurring in present-day Ukraine and Japan, respectively. Some recognise others… Continue reading Britain’s Chernobyl: What Was The Windscale Fire?
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