Month: September 2018

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-27/the-dome-runit-island-nuclear-test-leaking-due-to-climate-change/9161442

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-28/the-toxic-legacy-of-a-deadly-paradise/9168422

I included the documentary accompanied with these articles. It is over forty minutes long, so if you do not watch it I am pretty sure you can most of the info from these two articles. There are many articles about this issue but I like how they focused on the soldiers and those who are inhabiting the marshall islands.

–Katie Hubbard

The Goiânia accident was a radioactive contamination accident that occurred on September 13, 1987, at Goiânia, in the Brazilian state of Goiás, after a forgotten radiotherapy source was taken from an abandoned hospital site in the city. It was subsequently handled by many people, resulting in four deaths. About 112,000 people were examined for radioactive contamination and 249 were found to have significant levels of radioactive material in or on their bodies.

– Dan

Article – Dana Langston

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-famous-photo-of-chernobyls-most-dangerous-radioactive-material-was-a-selfie

– Daniel Brookman

The Radioactive Man Who Returned To Fukushima To Feed The Animals That Everyone Else Left Behind

Photos and story about a man who is sacrificing his health for the sake of the animals of Fukushima.

This is the class blog for The Unstable Nucleus.  See the Canvas page for instructions about how to log in and post.  Some of the topics we will be following this semester include:

1.  North Korea!  What exactly is going on with their nuclear program, and what exactly is the Trump administration doing about it?   See, for initial discussion, this Vox article on whether a nuclear deal might happen.

2.  The Iran deal:  What’s happening now that Trump has pulled the US out of the Iran nuclear deal?  See, for initial discussion, this Times of Isreal article.

3.  The Fukushima crisis of 2011 is far from over.  Just this week, the Japanese government acknowledged the first cancer death due to radiation exposure during cleanup.  See this NPR article as a starting point on this topic.

Anything else you run across that relates to radiation, radioactivity, nuclear technology, or related topics is likely to be good material for posting.  Post often!  It makes the class more interesting!