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Blue Dogs Have Been Spotted In Chernobyl: What Is Going On?at least three blue dogs were documented within the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone on October 6, 2025.

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Blue Dogs Have Been Spotted In Chernobyl: What Is Going On?at least three blue dogs were documented within the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone on October 6, 2025.
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Blue Dogs Have Been Spotted In Chernobyl: What Is Going On?

clock-iconOctober 28, 2025
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Four Radioactive Wasp Nests Have Been Found At A Nuclear Facility In South CarolinaA stock image of some wasps and a nest.

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Four Radioactive Wasp Nests Have Been Found At A Nuclear Facility In South CarolinaA stock image of some wasps and a nest.
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Four Radioactive Wasp Nests Have Been Found At A Nuclear Facility In South Carolina

clock-iconAugust 7, 2025
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Rhino Horns Go Radioactive As Anti-Poaching Project Gets Off The GroundThe veterinary team of the Limpopo Rhino Orphanage monitors a white rhino while Professor James Larkin, Chief Scientific Officer of the Rhisotope Project, inserts a dosage of radioisotopes into the horn of a white rhino.

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Rhino Horns Go Radioactive As Anti-Poaching Project Gets Off The GroundThe veterinary team of the Limpopo Rhino Orphanage monitors a white rhino while Professor James Larkin, Chief Scientific Officer of the Rhisotope Project, inserts a dosage of radioisotopes into the horn of a white rhino.
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Rhino Horns Go Radioactive As Anti-Poaching Project Gets Off The Ground

clock-iconAugust 1, 2025
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Up To 20,000 Hectares Of Land Around Chernobyl Can Now Be Safely Farmed AgainChernobyl nuclear power plant cooling tower, abandoned city Pripyat, Chernobyl, Ukraine.

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Up To 20,000 Hectares Of Land Around Chernobyl Can Now Be Safely Farmed AgainChernobyl nuclear power plant cooling tower, abandoned city Pripyat, Chernobyl, Ukraine.
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Up To 20,000 Hectares Of Land Around Chernobyl Can Now Be Safely Farmed Again

clock-iconApril 30, 2025
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Australian "Science Nerd" Trying To Collect Every Element May Be Jailed After Reaching PlutoniumPlutonium drops.

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Australian "Science Nerd" Trying To Collect Every Element May Be Jailed After Reaching PlutoniumPlutonium drops.
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Australian "Science Nerd" Trying To Collect Every Element May Be Jailed After Reaching Plutonium

clock-iconMarch 26, 2025
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Radioactive Toy Laboratory Once Named One Of "The Most Dangerous Toys Of All Time" Up For AuctionThe photo shows an example of the Gilbert Atomic Energy Lab in its red box. The box has been separated into several spaces where tools and samples can be stored. The lid of the box includes an information sheet fitted into it that shows a cartoon boy looking at the assembled pieces, as well as instructions for its use.

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Radioactive Toy Laboratory Once Named One Of "The Most Dangerous Toys Of All Time" Up For AuctionThe photo shows an example of the Gilbert Atomic Energy Lab in its red box. The box has been separated into several spaces where tools and samples can be stored. The lid of the box includes an information sheet fitted into it that shows a cartoon boy looking at the assembled pieces, as well as instructions for its use.
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Radioactive Toy Laboratory Once Named One Of "The Most Dangerous Toys Of All Time" Up For Auction

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Trucks Loaded With Uranium Ore Leave Grand Canyon Mine Amid BacklashGrand Canyon aerial view. picturesque landscape of America

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Trucks Loaded With Uranium Ore Leave Grand Canyon Mine Amid BacklashGrand Canyon aerial view. picturesque landscape of America
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Trucks Loaded With Uranium Ore Leave Grand Canyon Mine Amid Backlash

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Patient CAL-1: The Most Radioactive Human Who Ever LivedDr Joseph Hamilton

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Patient CAL-1: The Most Radioactive Human Who Ever LivedDr Joseph Hamilton
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Patient CAL-1: The Most Radioactive Human Who Ever Lived

clock-iconFebruary 24, 2024
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Albert Stevens Survived One Of The Highest Known Accumulated Radiation Doses In HistoryLIFE Magazine - August 20, 1945

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Albert Stevens Survived One Of The Highest Known Accumulated Radiation Doses In HistoryLIFE Magazine - August 20, 1945
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Albert Stevens Survived One Of The Highest Known Accumulated Radiation Doses In History

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What Does Plutonium Taste Like?A black and white photograph of small round drops of plutonium.

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What Does Plutonium Taste Like?A black and white photograph of small round drops of plutonium.
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What Does Plutonium Taste Like?

clock-iconDecember 14, 2023
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Japan's Prime Minister Eats Fukushima Fish To Prove It's SafeJapanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.

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Japan's Prime Minister Eats Fukushima Fish To Prove It's SafeJapanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
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Japan's Prime Minister Eats Fukushima Fish To Prove It's Safe

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Radioactive Boars Aren’t Safe To Eat, But Chernobyl’s Not Solely To Blamewild boar germany

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Radioactive Boars Aren’t Safe To Eat, But Chernobyl’s Not Solely To Blamewild boar germany
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Radioactive Boars Aren’t Safe To Eat, But Chernobyl’s Not Solely To Blame

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How Radiation Exposure From Chernobyl Has Altered The DNA Of Their DogsSmall brown and white dog looking at the camera. Abandoned area behind.

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How Radiation Exposure From Chernobyl Has Altered The DNA Of Their DogsSmall brown and white dog looking at the camera. Abandoned area behind.
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How Radiation Exposure From Chernobyl Has Altered The DNA Of Their Dogs

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First New Heavy Isotope Of Radioactive Uranium Discovered In Over 40 YearsUranium ore

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First New Heavy Isotope Of Radioactive Uranium Discovered In Over 40 YearsUranium ore
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First New Heavy Isotope Of Radioactive Uranium Discovered In Over 40 Years

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New Images From Inside Fukushima Nuclear Plant Are Causing Big WorriesAn image taken on March 30, 2023, by a robot inside Fukushima's Unit 1 Primary Containment Vessel.

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New Images From Inside Fukushima Nuclear Plant Are Causing Big WorriesAn image taken on March 30, 2023, by a robot inside Fukushima's Unit 1 Primary Containment Vessel.
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New Images From Inside Fukushima Nuclear Plant Are Causing Big Worries

clock-iconApril 5, 2023
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