The independent UK Committe on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment COMARE released a report on May 6, 2011 “COMARE 14th Report: Further consideration of the incidence of childhood leukaemia around nuclear power plants in Great Britain”. The report concludes that the risk risk estimate for childhood leukaemia associated […]
Radiation
The design flaws in the Fukushima reactors were noted by the reactor designer Alvin Weinberg, which lead to his sacking in 1973. It looks like vested interests have concealed these shortcomings, despite cooling problems leading to the problems at Three Mile Island. The outcomes of this event will totally reshape the whole nuclear industry.
Reactor Safety
The risk of brian tumors from mobile phones may be increased by a factor of four, if a new study
Brain Tumors and Mobile Phones
Rum Jungle in the Northern Territory of Australia was a fairly wild place in the 1950’s with a number of uranium mines and a lot of people who only wanted to be known by their first names. The legend is that the workers from the mine would sometimes demonstrate how […]
Atomic Cocktails
Dangerous orphaned radiation sources continue to be a problem, highlighted by the Goiânia accident