Рубрика: nuclear

A radioactive man in a radioactive world
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A radioactive man in a radioactive world

Natural radioactivity has been around for billions of years. It can be found literally everywhere. Ionizing radiation existed on Earth long before the birth of life, and it has been present in space long before the appearance of Earth itself. About a billion years ago, complex chemical processes began on our planet, gradually leading to...

A peaceful atom in the Arctic ice
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A peaceful atom in the Arctic ice

On December 3, 2019, Russia celebrated the 60th anniversary of its nuclear-powered icebreaker fleet. On this day in 1959, the Leningrad Admiralty shipyard and the Gorky machine-building plant no.92, the main executioners, delivered Lenin, the first nuclear-powered icebreaker to its commissioner, the Ministry of the Navy. Judging by the level of technology involved, the concentration...