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Cold War Nuclear Weapons Put St. Louis Community At Risk—in 2023

Union of Concerned Scientists

Our illnesses are from CHRONIC, low-level exposure from ionizing radiation over YEARS, through ingestion and inhalation. The Jana Elementary community also has concerns surrounding radiation exposure related to the Manhattan Project , and were recently making headlines for seeking answers and getting conflicting exposure reports.

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A CERES of fortunate events…

Real Climate

That is long enough to see that there has been a noticeable trend in the Earth’s Energy Imbalance (EEI), mostly driven by a reduction in the solar radiation reflected by the planet, while the outgoing long wave radiation does not appear to contribute much. A paper last year (Goode et al., The total radiative forcing is.

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A glimpse into the future of radiation therapy

Physics World

Tsang noted that automation in radiotherapy is a popular topic, with the number of published studies on this theme increasing from 30 in 2011 to 381 in 2021, and many talks in this area at the ESTRO congress. Fewer, higher radiation doses safe for early breast cancer. Machine learning makes its mark on medical imaging and therapy.

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Wildfire Threat to Texas Nuclear Weapons Facility Highlights Intersecting Risks

Union of Concerned Scientists

Two major wildfires threatened Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico in 2000 and 2011. Just like the current fires in Texas, the 2011 Las Conchas fire in New Mexico was, at the time, the state’s largest fire on record at 156,000 acres. The lab conducts research to maintain the US nuclear stockpile among other missions.

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Can the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant Avoid a Major Disaster?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Depending on the nature and extent of the damage, the plant could experience one or more core meltdowns or spent nuclear fuel pool fires, which could trigger a radiological release rivaling that of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi accident or even the larger release from the 1986 Chernobyl accident. How rapidly could this sequence of events begin?

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Five Things the “Nuclear Bros” Don’t Want You to Know About Small Modular Reactors

Union of Concerned Scientists

And if the SMR were located closer to populated areas with no offsite emergency planning, more people could be exposed to dangerously high levels of radiation. SMRs will not reduce the problem of what to do with radioactive waste.

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We are not reaching 1.5ºC earlier than previously thought

Real Climate

According to the AR6 findings, Earth’s average temperature in the last decade (2011-2020) was 1.09? But let’s take a step back before going into the more detailed comparison below. Some background. warmer than pre-industrial times (here defined as 1850-1900). Obviously, this goes most of the way to 1.5?