Tag Archives: Ionizing radiation

Short Course of Radiation Is Better for Treating Early Breast Cancer, New Study

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Breast cancer patients are mostly treated with small doses of radiation for a long period of time. But this is not the most efficient method available. A new study, published in the medical...

Conservation Group Finds No Fukushima Radiation Off U.S. West Coast

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Tests of water samples off the U.S. West Coast have found no indications of radiation from Japan's 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, even though low levels of radiation are expected to reach the...

Chernobyl Study Proves Regional Vegetation is still Extant

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It’s been quite some time since that fateful day approximately three decades ago when the nuclear reactor leaked deadly radiation at Chernobyl thereby wreaking havoc on half the global atmosphere....

Radioactive Fukushima Waters Arrive At West Coast Of America

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Presenters at the annual Ocean Sciences Meeting of the American Geophysical Union in Honolulu in late February said ocean water containing dissolved radionuclides from Fukushima’s crippled nuclear...

Radioactive Fukushima Waters Arrive At West Coast Of America

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Presenters at the annual Ocean Sciences Meeting of the American Geophysical Union in Honolulu in late February said ocean water containing dissolved radionuclides from Fukushima’s crippled nuclear...

Woods Hole Launches Crowd-Sourced Ocean Radiation Testing

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The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution launched a crowd-sourced and crowd-funded project yesterday to monitor radiation levels in seawater along the West Coast of North America. The project, led...
    






San Francisco gives up the fight over mobile phone warnings

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San Francisco’s local officials have proposed a law that requires cell phone makers to display warning stickers on their products. The stickers will warn users as to the amount of energy or radiation...