New research puts cosmic radiation exposure, not nuclear work, at the top of the list for radiation-related cancer deaths.
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Solar energy is associated with intermittency issues, as it only generates electricity when the sun shines. Certain PV systems can provide cost-effective power reserves for storing electricity.
For one thing, there’d be a much higher rate of brain cancers in the decades since mobile phones were widely adopted.
Too many Australians affected by cancer are being financially ruined or receiving sub-optimal (or no) care, due to cost or distance – and it’s everyone’s problem.
The nuclear incident at Chernobyl spread radiation across Europe and led to political changes that played a role in the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Radiation risk can be measured, understood and controlled in ways that keep people safe, including from contaminated foods.
When I talk about my anthropological fieldwork, many Americans are shocked to learn that “living on a nuclear test site” is even a logical statement.
For decades, the US seriously pursued the idea of ‘peaceful nuclear explosions.’
A new map offers a new perspective on the city, revealing the steady, ever-present natural radiation emerging from the ground beneath our feet.
Tardigrades make a unique damage suppressor protein that researchers are working to harness for medicine, space, agriculture, data storage and more.
Unstable atoms emit fast-moving particles that can damage cells in the human body. Some atoms are far more unstable than others.
Three decades after France’s last nuclear tests, those living near the test sites still await compensation for the harms caused.
Lightning can be used to probe Earth’s dynamic Van Allen radiation belts, directly connecting terrestrial weather and space weather.
Black doesn’t appear in the visible spectrum of electromagnetic radiation. So why do we still see it?
Radiation exposure does not affect the life expectancy or health of frogs living in Chernobyl’s exclusion zone.
Understanding how cancer is discussed across diverse languages and cultural contexts is crucial, especially on a continent that has more than 2,000 languages.
Like the Japanese atomic survivors who were awarded the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, Godzilla has a message to share.
We now have the strongest evidence to date that radio waves from mobile phones are not a hazard to human health.
Every few thousand years, the Sun unleashes a burst of high-energy particles that can have serious consequences for life on Earth.
The Sun will be at its most explosive right around the time NASA plans to put people back on the Moon.
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Timothy J. Jorgensen is a Friend of The Conversation.Director of the Health Physics and Radiation Protection Graduate Program and Professor of Radiation Medicine, Georgetown University
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Director Radiation Research and Advice, Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA), and Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Wollongong
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Professor of Engineering and International Relations, University of Southern California
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Professor of Health Psychology, University of Wollongong
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Honorary Principal Fellow, School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Fellow, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Middlebury College
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Professor of Environmental Science, University of Portsmouth
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Professor of Sociology, Ball State University
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Professor Emeritus of Communication, North Carolina State University
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Doctoral student, Adelaide University
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Postdoctoral research fellow, Applied Ethics, University of British Columbia
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Associate Professor of Physics, The University of Melbourne
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Research Fellow in nuclear waste disposal, University of Sheffield
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CBRN defence scientist, Charles Darwin University
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Reader in Psychology, University of Stirling