Tag: radioactive
Radioactive drugs? Against cancer, a path that is gaining momentum
News Published on 02/11/2024 at 8:01 p.m. updated on 02/11/2024 at 8:01 p.m. Reading 3 min. Inject radioactive components into the body which will directly destroy cancer cells. The avenue…
A professional athlete drank 1,400 radioactive energy drinks that could have come from fallout
After the chemist and physicist Marie Curie discovered radioactivity, the radioactive elements were processed into numerous everyday objects. This cost a professional athlete his life after he drank 1,400 energy…
Breast cancer: radioactive tracers, a high-tech weapon for better treatment
News Published on 10/12/2024 at 8:01 a.m. updated on 10/12/2024 at 8:01 a.m. Reading 2 min. Nuclear medicine has important allies in the fight against breast cancer: tracers. Invisible but…
New Attempt to Extract Radioactive Waste Launched in Fukushima
The Japanese operator of the Fukushima plant, Tepco, is making a new attempt on Tuesday, September 10, to remove a sample of highly radioactive debris from the plant’s reactors. The…
The weapon against the poachers: Radioactive horns
share-arrowShare unsaveSave expand-left fullscreen A rhinoceros near South Africa’s Klerksdorp in 2017. The animal has had its horn ground down in the hope that it will reduce the interest of…
In South Africa, radioactive material was injected into the horns of rhinoceroses | News in brief
The researchers inserted the tiny radioactive chips into the animals as part of a research project aimed at preventing poaching. 10:37•Updated 10:43 In South Africa, radioactive material has been injected…
millions of toxic and radioactive waste at the bottom of Californian waters
It’s a toxic legacy that scientists have discovered off the coast of California: at least 56,000 rotting barrels of potentially radioactive waste. They were dumped there between the 1940s and…
the intriguing peculiarity of radioactive atoms – L’Express
The questions raised by the end of life and old age occupy minds. For us mortal humans, they are obviously related to each other. But this correlation is not universal.…
Radioactive radiation is to be measured on Gotland – looking for volunteers
16 people are to be part of the group that will receive training from the voluntary organization Försvarsudgarnarna. They will not be employed but will be deployed at the county…
Johannes Roviomaa’s column: Russia has thrown radioactive waste where it hurts | Columns
The Arctic region is also a graveyard for waste and nuclear waste. Leaving this environmentally destructive waste in the sea is ecological suicide, writes Roviomaa. Johannes Rovioma is a freelance…