There are around 440 nuclear power plants operating in 32 countries around the world, supplying some 10% of the world’s electricity. Another 60 reactors are under construction, and 300 more are ...
British doctors have linked polonium to the poisoning death of Alexander Litvinenko, the former Russian spy. Polonium is a highly radioactive metallic element and is most often used as polonium 210.
What do granite and bananas have in common? Radioactivity. As it turns out, radioactivity is all around us and has been for eons. About 25 years ago, I was doing radiation surveys at a NASA research ...