The average radiation exposure for the entire Japanese population, due to the Fukushima disaster, was as low as 1/10th of that experienced by the entire European population due to the 1986 Chernobyl meltdown. That’s the finding of a 2022 report by the United Nations Scientific Committee on ...
Simply put, a "meltdown" is when the nuclear fuel inside the reactor gets so hot, it literally melts. Uranium pellets are inside the long fuel rods. If the reactor is not cooled properly, the tubes can fall apart, with the radioactive material falling to the bottom. "It's like a car...
CoelasquidJanuary 25, 20162:24 am I was gonna say I had to come up with a last minute comic because we had a big Royal Rumble party and it made me realize how much I say things like that and how many Wrestling parties we throw. ...
Biting down on hard ice cubes can be both a noisy and a potentially painful experience. Maybe some people still think chewing ice is rude, but the invention of airy little ice nuggets has made the practice both irresistible—and useful at times. Scotsman Ice Systems invented the first nugget...
Some were restored during the Renaissance, and one of them—the Aqua Virgo, which the engineer Sextus Julius Frontinus meticulously documented at “14,105 paces” in length—still brings water to the Trevi Fountain. But it took more than a millennium before the world, pushed to the brink by...
200.Missing Body Search– Narrowing down the search for a missing by finding subtle terrain anomalies in the ground using LiDAR. 201.Megan’s Law– Obeying the requirement for local law enforcement agencies to notify residents about the presence of certain sex offenders in their area by only con...
and other illnesses became more common as the pollutants were deposited in the lungs of millions. The human and environmental consequences are still being felt. Today, infant-mortality rates in the Aral Sea region remain significantly higher than the national average in Uzbekistan, and children there...
We watched the Chernobyl Mini Series on HBO together and he was totally engaged. Phew! I was encouraged enough to think I could engage in a little self indulgence. No more Family With Medical Leave Act for I ‘n’ I. Now, I want to go on vacation: cratedig, road trip, herbal ...
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