A Power Source Like No Other Imagine a battery that doesn’t need replacing for thousands of years. That’s not science fiction ...

Throw one hundred coins, remove all those that come up tails, place them in a pile, repeat—you've got yourself a hands-on model for radioactive decay. The piles graphically show the meaning of the ...

This is the story of America’s most radioactive town, where the half-life of certain radioactive elements will outlast all human memory of the place itself. Uranium City, New Mexico. Image via ...

The ideal, therefore, is to find a radioactive substance with a short half-life that will decay quickly after passing on the information doctors need. The problem is that the unstable substances ...

and vegetation with Neptunium-237 (237Np), a highly radioactive isotope with a 2.1-million-year half-life. The source? The now-decommissioned Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant (PGDP), a uranium ...

However, a new study highlights how the decision by the Japanese government to begin releasing the radioactive water ... radionuclide present, with a half-life of 12.6 years—to ascertain if ...

a period far shorter than the half-life of the radioactive material it could contain, according to researchers with the opposition groups. The citizens’ groups, including the Canadian Coalition ...

In that case, Cobalt-60 pellets caused radiation poisoning where junkyard employees became nauseated, had their fingernails turn black and suffered sterilization. With a 30-year half-life ...

It seems the occasion and the update has given everyone Half-Life fever (and no I don't mean radiation poisoning), as the 1998 shooter tore through reality to reach a new all-time peak concurrent ...

However, due to its much shorter half-life compared to tritium, it does not significantly impact cooling times. As for the lead reflector, the saturation activities of all radioactive products, along ...