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ANS Nuclear Cafe Matinee: Radiation Belt Storm Probes
NASA’s Radiation Belt Storm Probes mission is scheduled for launch early on Thursday morning, August 30. How and why? An ANS Nuclear Cafe double feature matinee: Quite a lot of fascinating “right...
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ANS video interview: Oxford Professor Wade Allison discusses radiation… and...
At the ANS 2012 Annual Meeting, ANS Public Information Committee’s Dan Yurman caught up with Dr. Wade Allison, of Oxford University, UK. They discussed radiation, health effects, Fukushima, Dr....
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In case of atomic bomb, beer still OK
Science historian Alex Wellerstein recently wrote of a series of nuclear weapons tests conducted in 1955 at the Nevada Test Site, known as Operation Teapot. Among the important civil defense questions...
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A Salute to Medical Ionizing Radiation During Breast Cancer Awareness Month
By Bryan Bednarz As a cancer researcher, I am constantly reminded of the horrific impact that breast cancer has on women and their families. This past week I received notification from my boss...
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Challenging scientific organizations to adhere to scientific methods
By Rod Adams RockwellFor more than two years, I have been privileged to be included in correspondence about a battle for truth led by Ted Rockwell, one of the pioneers of nuclear energy and radiation...
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ANS Nuclear Cafe Matinee: The Radioactive Orchestra
With the 2012 American Nuclear Society Winter Meeting wrapping up in San Diego, a musical tribute to the nuclear sciences and technologies—and now, the nuclear arts!— is in order. In this excellent...
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2012 ~ The year that was in nuclear energy
Plus a few pointers to what’s in store for 2013 By Dan Yurman Former NRC Chairman Gregory Jackzo On a global scale the nuclear industry had its share of pluses and minuses in 2012. Japan’s Fukushima...
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Friday Nuclear Matinee: Types Of Radiation
All ages are welcome at the Friday Nuclear Matinee for this short video from the UK. Kids get in free! Also, adults who enjoy British accents–and cartoons–and the funny word “aluminium.” Alpha...
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Fukushima Two Years Later
by Will Davis At about a quarter to three in the afternoon on March 11, 2011, a gigantic and unprecedented earthquake struck just over 110 miles off the coast of Fukushima Prefecture in Japan. The...
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New EPA Guidelines for Response to Radioactivity Releases
By Jim Hopf The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency just released a draft Protective Action Guideline (PAG) that sets standards and makes recommendations for the response to a large release of...
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What’s Your Radiation Dose?
Yes, indeed, you do have one. It’s rather surprising that many people simply don’t realize that radiation exists naturally all around us, and is part of our everyday lives—whether we are aware or not....
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Robotics, Remote Systems, and Radiation
. . By Reid L. Kress This discussion is targeted at the robotics or remote systems professional who is interested in using his or her commercial system in a nuclear application or who is beginning the...
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Food Irradiation Can Save Thousands of Lives Each Year
By Lenka Kollar The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 1 in 6 people get food poisoning each year in the United States and that 3000 die from foodborne illness. Food...
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Accepting the Science of Biological Effects of Low Level Radiation
By Rod Adams A group of past presidents and fellows of the American Nuclear Society has composed an important open letter to ANS on a topic that has been the subject of controversy since before I first...
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Nuclear professionals: Establish standing now to improve operational...
By Rod Adams On August 3, 2014, the window will close on a rare opportunity to use the political process to strongly support the use of science to establish radiation protection regulations. Though it...
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Proposed Revisions to Nuclear Plant Release/Public Exposure Regulations: ANS...
By Jim Hopf In January, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) concerning 40 CFR 190—the regulations that govern public exposure and release of...
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Motives for pushing a no-threshold dose radiation risk model (LNT) in 1955-56
By Rod Adams Dr. Edward Calabrese recently published a paper titled The Genetics Panel of the NAS BEAR I Committee (1956): epistolary evidence suggests self‐interest may have prompted an exaggeration...
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Navigating Nuclear with Bob Fine and Dr. Eric Loewen
By Douglas Hardtmayer On Episode 12 of RadioNuclear, we discuss how fear-mongering stories about nuclear power plants in the path of a hurricane are irrelevant, the Oyster Creek Shutdown, and lastly,...
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Nuclear Medicine Radiates Hope For Patients
By Emma Meyers As a fourth year nursing student working in Chicago area hospitals, I deal with nuclear medicine quite often. The term “nuclear medicine” can sound disconcerting, but when you are...
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The Mother of Radiation: Marie Curie
By Kaitlyn Butler The start of Marie Curie’s story isn’t like most of the other scientists that had made a name for themselves throughout history, mostly because she was a grown woman by the start of...
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