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All bananas are indeed radioactive. An expert explains what it means
(ORDO NEWS) — The mere mention of the word “radiation” often causes fear in people. It’s funny for others to think that a little exposure to radiation could turn you into the next superhero like the Hulk. But is it true that everything around us is radioactive, even the food we eat? You may have heard that bananas are slightly radioactive, but what does that really mean? And despite the…
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Scientists have found a herbal remedy for radioactive contamination of the soil
(ORDO NEWS) — In tropical and subtropical regions around the world, Portulaca sesuvium grows – an unremarkable plant with small, fleshy leaves. However, now scientists have discovered that it can solve one of the main environmental problems – to clean the soil around nuclear power plants from radioactive cesium. Portulacoid Sesuvium ( Sesuvium portulacastrum ) is a perennial creeping plant that can grow on dry, salt-rich sea coasts. It had…
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Most radioactive places on Earth: walk around for a kilometer
(ORDO NEWS) — Who on Earth is exposed to the strongest ionizing radiation? Physicist-engineer Derek Muller has traveled the globe in search of the most radioactive places in order to understand how uranium has changed the modern world. Radiation is scary, at least some of its types. The Geiger counter does not respond to cell phones, Wi-Fi routers, and microwaves, as it only measures ionizing radiation, which has enough energy…
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A method for separating uranium from radioactive waste has been developed
(ORDO NEWS) — Scientists at the Ural Federal University have figured out how to process radioactive uranium-containing sludge, which will help provide uranium to the nuclear industry. Over decades of operation of nuclear industry enterprises, millions of tons of solid radioactive uranium-containing waste have been accumulated, which are potential sources of pollution of the atmosphere, adjacent territories and groundwater. At the same time, accumulating in the human body, radionuclides provoke…