Google honors geochemist Katsuko Saruhashi
Google is using its logo Thursday to honor a pioneer in geochemistry.
Internet
Mar 23, 2018
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News tagged with radioactive fallout
Radioactive cesium fallout on Tokyo from Fukushima concentrated in glass microparticles
New research shows that most of the radioactive fallout which landed on downtown Tokyo a few days after the Fukushima accident was concentrated and deposited in non-soluble glass microparticles, as a type of 'glassy soot'. ...
Environment
Jun 27, 2016
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Radiation in the postwar American mind—from wonder to worry
Seventy years ago at a remote site in New Mexico, the first test of a nuclear bomb was detonated, producing a massive explosion. The test, which presaged the atomic bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, Japan in August ...
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Jul 16, 2015
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Ukraine, Japan to monitor Chernobyl and Fukushima from space
Ukraine and Japan on Monday agreed to launch a joint satellite project to track the state of crippled Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear plants, sites of the world's greatest nuclear disasters.
Energy & Green Tech
Aug 26, 2013
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Ukraine marks Chernobyl disaster amid efforts to secure reactor (Update)
Ukrainians on Friday lit candles and laid flowers to remember the victims of the world's worst nuclear disaster at Chernobyl 27 years ago, as engineers pressed on with efforts to permanently shield the stricken reactor.
Energy & Green Tech
Apr 26, 2013
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Activists fault WHO report on Fukushima radiation
Activist physicians on Monday accused the World Health Organization of downplaying the health impact of nuclear fallout from the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Environment
Mar 11, 2013
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French 'rotten egg' stench invades England (Update 2)
The stench of rotten eggs wafted across Paris and northern France on Tuesday, even reaching across the sea to England, after a gas leak that authorities said was very smelly but entirely harmless.
Environment
Jan 22, 2013
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Chernobyl shelter construction reaches key landmark
Work to build a permanent shelter to secure the exploded reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine reached a key milestone on Tuesday when workers raised the arched section that will cover the destroyed unit.
Energy & Green Tech
Nov 27, 2012
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Environmentalist pioneer Barry Commoner dies at 95
(AP)—Barry Commoner, a scientist and a pioneer of the environmental movement, has died in New York at age 95.
Environment
Oct 2, 2012
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Radioactive bluefin tuna crossed the Pacific to US
Across the vast Pacific, the mighty bluefin tuna carried radioactive contamination that leaked from Japan's crippled nuclear plant to the shores of the United States 6,000 miles away - the first time a huge migrating fish ...
Environment
May 28, 2012
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