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Why can Hiroshima be inhabited when Chernobyl cannot?
In Hiroshima, atomic bomb was dropped, but today, there are residents in Hiroshima. However, in Chernobyl, there is no resident living today (or very few). What made the difference?
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Radiation exposure to a child who was briefly in the presence of an adult who had received a 18FDG PET scan
I am a physician who thought she was good at math, but apparently am not as I cannot figure out this mathematical/physics question. (My background is obviously NOT nuclear medicine!) A family friend ...
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Was the early Earth radioactive?
I've been reading of the (surprising) fact we are uncertain on whether there is nuclear fission in the center of the Earth or not (yet we know so much detail on structures at the other end of the ...
