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Strange animal-nuclear tales via Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

Posted on 2022/01/03 by nfield

By Susan D’Agostino, Thomas Gaulkin, December 16, 2021 Have you ever wondered what nuclear technologies look like from the perspective of animals? In these short, strange-but-true stories and photographs, you’ll encounter animals whose paths intersected with nuclear infrastructure, including crocodiles drawn to … Continue reading →

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CJFC brings indie Japanese films to the midwest via Reader

Posted on 2021/05/25 by kojimaaiko

The Chicago Japan Film Collective highlights the country’s lesser-known cinematic works. “This is a wish come true,” says Yuki Sakamoto, cofounder of the Chicago Japan Film Collective (CJFC), the first-ever Japanese film festival held in Chicago. The festival runs from … Continue reading →

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Chernobyl ‘Exclusion Zone’ Radiation Doses Reanalyzed via Scientific American

Posted on 2020/11/28 by nfield

By Rachel Nuwer | Scientific American December 2020 Issue Evidence builds that animals are scarcer in more heavily contaminated areas […] “The effects we saw are consistent with conventional wisdom about radiation,” says University of South Carolina biologist Timothy Mousseau, co-author of the … Continue reading →

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Dose reconstruction supports the interpretation of decreased abundance of mammals in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone via Scientific Reports

Posted on 2020/08/22 by nfield

Karine Beaugelin-Seiller, Jacqueline Garnier-Laplace, Claire Della-Vedova, Jean-Michel Métivier, Hugo Lepage, Timothy A. Mousseau & Anders Pape Møller  Abstract We re-analyzed field data concerning potential effects of ionizing radiation on the abundance of mammals collected in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) to interpret these findings from current knowledge … Continue reading →

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Fukushima-Radioactive Forest via NHK World

Posted on 2019/03/11 by nfield

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South Carolina researcher wants to learn about radiation by researching stray dogs near Chernobyl via The Post and Courier

Posted on 2018/05/14 by nfield

  When Timothy Mousseau, a researcher with the University of South Carolina, started visiting Ukraine nearly 20 years ago, he studied birds, insects and plants, “basically anything we could catch.” It was an excuse to go somewhere unusual and study … Continue reading →

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Red Hot Radioactive Wild Boars, Loaded With Chernobyl Fallout, Now Turning up in Sweden via EnviroNews

Posted on 2017/11/20 by nfield

Wild boars (Sus scrofa) loaded with dangerous quantities of cesium 137 have been turning up in tests conducted in central Sweden. Some specimens have been found carrying levels as high as 16,000 becquerels of radioactivity per kilogram of meat — … Continue reading →

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Concentration of Radiocesium in the Wild Japanese Monkey (Macaca fuscata) over the First 15 Months after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster via PLOS one

Posted on 2016/12/03 by kojimaaiko

Concentration of Radiocesium in the Wild Japanese Monkey (Macaca fuscata) over the First 15 Months after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster Shin-ichi Hayama, Sachie Nakiri, Setsuko Nakanishi, Naomi Ishii, Taiki Uno, Takuya Kato, Fumiharu Konno, Yoshi Kawamoto, Shuichi Tsuchida, Kazuhiko Ochiai, Toshinori Omi Published: July 3, 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0068530 Abstract Following … Continue reading →

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Low blood cell counts in wild Japanese monkeys after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster via Nature.com

Posted on 2016/12/03 by kojimaaiko

Low blood cell counts in wild Japanese monkeys after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster Kazuhiko Ochiai, Shin-ichi Hayama, Sachie Nakiri, Setsuko Nakanishi, Naomi Ishii, Taiki Uno,Takuya Kato, Fumiharu Konno, Yoshi Kawamoto, Shuichi Tsuchida & Toshinori OmiScientific Reports 4, Article number: 5793 (2014) … Continue reading →

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Birds at Hanford vit plant spread contaminated waste via the Tri-City Herald

Posted on 2013/06/06 by norma field

Work stopped Wednesday morning at parts of the Hanford vitrification plant after radioactive contamination was detected under a bird’s nest, according to Bechtel National. The contamination is suspected of coming from mud used for the nest, which may have belonged … Continue reading →

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