The Chernobyl Disaster: Effects on People and the Environment The Chernobyl disaster, which occurred on April 26, 1986, at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, is considered one of the worst nuclear accidents in history. The horrible event had long-lasting effects on both the people living in the area and the environment. 1.immediate Health Read More…

It’s important to be educated on radiation because we are exposed to radiation everyday. For example in the car or in a restaurant and when your by the window the suns UV goes through the glass making the skin exposed to it. In addition the sources of radiation is cosmic radiation, terrestrial radiation, inhalation, and Read More…

Radiation therapy is a type of cancer treatment. This treatment uses beams of intense energy to kill cancer cells. Most of the time X-rays are used during radiation therapy. But other types of radiation therapy exist, including proton radiation, which is a type of radiation therapy that uses proton rather than x-rays. It painlessly delivers Read More…

Where? The Three Mile Island (TMI) Nuclear Power Plant was built in Londonderry Township, Pennsylvania on a small island in the Susquehanna River. Construction lasted 10 years, starting in 1968 and ending in 1978. The plant was home to 2 reactors and were built to produce “clean” electricity for the city and its fast-growing population. Read More…

What is Radiation Sickness? So we all know about the atomic bomb that fell on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, Japan. Well apparently that area still suffers from radiation sickness. If you don’t know what that is, basically radiation sickness is when damage is done to the body caused by large amounts of radiation. Large doses of Read More…

Space nuclear propulsion is a technology that draws energy from fission instead of traditional chemical reactions, paving the way for crewed Mars missions and deep space exploration. NASA is investigating both electric and thermal nuclear propulsion systems. Compared to chemical rockets, nuclear thermal propulsion offers double the propellant efficiency and high thrust. Heat is transferred Read More…

The process of food irradiation: Nourishment light (the application of ionizing radiation to nourishment) may be a innovation that moves forward the security and amplifies the rack life of nourishments by decreasing or killing microorganisms and creepy crawlies. H This example of an apple shows the radiation passing through it and its benefits such as Read More…

Step back into the heart of the mid-20th century, a time gripped by the ironclad rivalry between superpowers. Amidst the perilous dance of brinkmanship ( foreign policy practice in which one or both parties force the interaction between them to the threshold of confrontation in order to gain an advantageous negotiation position over the other), Read More…

𝑵𝒖𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒑𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒂 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒏𝒖𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒇𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑨𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒂 𝒏𝒖𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒑𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒔, 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒇𝒖𝒆𝒍 𝒓𝒐𝒅𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒖𝒎-235 𝒐𝒓 𝒑𝒍𝒖𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒖𝒎-239.𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒆 𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒉𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒍𝒚 𝒖𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆, 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒂𝒕𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒄 𝒏𝒖𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒊 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒍𝒚 𝒔𝒑𝒍𝒊𝒕 𝒂𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒐𝒓 𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒈𝒐 𝒏𝒖𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒇𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏. 𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒂 𝒏𝒆𝒖𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒏 𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒖𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒖𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒂 Read More…

By Timothy Smith Nuclear waste also known as radioactive waste, is a hazardous waste that contains radioactive material. Nuclear waste is the result of many hazardous activities like nuclear medicine, nuclear research, nuclear power generation, nuclear decommissioning, rare-earth mining, and nuclear weapons reprocessing. Nuclear waste is the byproduct from nuclear reactors, fuel processing plants, hospitals Read More…

by jasmine bush Nuclear power is the most reliable source of energy used throughout nations. The benefits nuclear energy brings to space exploration is limitless , it can crack down on the biggest factor. TIME!!!!. With Nuclear propulsion systems there is a higher thrust and better propellant efficiency than chemical rockets. Who knows with this Read More…

Bikini Atoll is a coral island in the Pacific Ocean, consisting of a ring-shaped reef surrounding a 25-mile by 15-mile oval lagoon. The atoll includes 23 small coral islands within its reef. The atoll is part of the Marshall Islands, which is an island chain located between Hawaii and the Philippines. The United States government took Read More…

by Nayelhi Pena What is the atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki? How was it impactful? So what exactly happened? During World War II, 1945, The USA deploys an attack towards Japan in Hiroshima then three days later attacks Nagasaki using curated atomic bombs. These bombings killed an estimated amount of 200,000 people! Resulting in Read More…

By Ethan Mulligan The Manhattan Project was a top-secret research project beginning on August 13, 1942, with the goal of researching and developing the weapons of destruction that would later become known as the atomic bomb. It was founded during the Second World War out of fear of German scientists developing the weapon first, since Read More…

DeVia Levy A PET is a technique that measures physiological function by looking at blood flow, metabolism, neurotransmitters, and radio labelled drugs. PET offers quantitative analyses, allowing relative changes over time to be monitored as a disease process evolves or in response to a specific stimulus. The method relies on the detection of radioactivity released Read More…

Food irradiation is a process of preserving food and making it safe to eat. It uses ionizing radiation to kill and destroy food borne diseases, insects, bacteria, etc. – basically anything that could be harmful to human consumption and agriculture. This radiation can be in the form of x-rays, gamma rays, or an electron beam.  Read More…