Polonium’s chemical properties made it the ideal secret weapon for the assassins of Alexander Litvinenko.
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Australia has been trying to construct a new nuclear storage site for the past thirty-five years without success.
News of the Hiroshima bombing spread quickly to the US public but, thanks to science fiction writers, atomic bombs were discussed more before the war began than during it.
The first atom bomb test seventy years ago today marks the start of a change in Americans’ thinking about radiation. On balance, our nuclear anxieties endure today.
Irradiated plants taken from the evacuated areas around the stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant have been reported to cause growth abnormalities and early death when fed to butterfly larvae…
An element on the fringe of the periodic table could help build safe new storage containers for radioactive waste, help separate…
A new pathway to genetic mutation has been identified by researchers at Curtain University. The study found natural radioactivity…
On the weekend, a tank of radioactive material leaked from the closed Ranger uranium mine in the Northern Territory. While this has prompted concerns about the health of the surrounding Kakadu National…
A Swiss forensic report of the exhumed remains of ex-Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat today suggests polonium poisoning may have been the cause of death – but what is polonium, and why is it so deadly…
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Timothy J. Jorgensen is a Friend of The Conversation.
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