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Experts Suspect Small Nuclear Reactor for New Russian Missile Blew Up Last Week

The Wire Staff 14/08/2019

Speculation has been rife that the explosion was of...

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33 Years After Nuclear Accident, Chernobyl Becomes Refuge for Wildlife

Germán Orizaola 12/05/2019

After the nuclear disaster in 1986, it was assumed...

Sea ice off of East Antarctica’s Princess Astrid Coast. Credit: NASA

Satellite Imagery Is Revolutionising the World. But Should We Trust What We See?

Melinda Laituri 17/06/2018

Geospatial data offers a powerful new way to see...

IAEA experts, charged with reviewing Japan’s plans for the Fukushima nuclear facility, leave Unit 4 in 2013. IAEA/Flickr, CC BY 4.0

Seven Years Since the Fukushima Disaster, Is It Case Closed?

Franck Guarnieri, Mines ParisTech 28/03/2018

Calling Fukushima a “made in Japan” disaster focuses attention...

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Infinite in All Directions: Farts in a Bottle, Philosophy of Limits and Forgetting Chernobyl

Vasudevan Mukunth 22/08/2016

Infinite in All Directions is The Wire‘s science newsletter....

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Is Your Fear of Radiation Irrational?

Geoff Watts 19/07/2015

Radioactivity stirs primal fears in many people, but Geoff...