Category: Radiation

An exclusion zone has been in place around the plant since the 11 March earthquake and tsunami, which caused partial meltdowns in three of its reactors. The BBC's Roland Buerk…

Animals living in the area near the damaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan are reportedly not suffering any adverse health effects despite being exposed to high levels of…

Linen is anti-static which explains why it doesn't cling to the body and generally stays clean longer as this naturally repels dirt. Linen is also a temperature-regulating natural insulator, like…

As a general guideline, 43% is the highest DTI ratio a borrower can have and still get qualified for a mortgage. Ideally, lenders prefer a debt-to-income ratio lower than 36%,…

A careful study of pre-Hiroshima knowledge of radiation effects in the United States makes it clear that most of the immediate and long term biological effects of radiation on the…

Sweet in the front, salty and sour on the sides and bitter at the back. It's possibly the most recognizable symbol in the study of taste, but it's wrong. In…

Nuclear power is the fifth-largest source of electricity in India after coal, gas, hydroelectricity and wind power. As of November 2020, India has 22 nuclear reactors in operation in 7…

In an electric field a charged particle, or charged object, experiences a force. If the forces acting on any object are unbalanced, it will cause the object to accelerate. With…

Hawking radiation is made almost exclusively of photons, not a mix of particles and antiparticles. It gets emitted from a large region outside the event horizon, not right at the…

Radioactive decay is a random process. Although the rate of decay for a specific radionuclide can be calculated from knowledge of the number of radioactive atoms and the half-life, there…