Are You Afraid of Your Phone?
By Dr. Zoomie
I got my first cell phone about 30 years ago – one generation ago in ...
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My very first radiological consulting project was for a glass-making company; they were re-bricking one ...
Read moreCosmic Rays
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I’m a geek. I’ve gotten used to this fact, as have my children, my wife, ...
Read moreOklo’s Natural Nuclear Fission Reactors
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A bit over six billion years ago a star exploded somewhere in our galaxy – ...
Read moreChina’s Taishan Nuclear Power Plant
By Dr. Zoomie
Why we should care about noble gases So a friend sent me an email on ...
Read moreMy Day With Radiation
By Dr. Zoomie
So…I’m a radiation safety professional, which means that I have a bunch of radiation detectors ...
Read moreLooking for U
By Dr. Zoomie
The 1950s were optimistic years in the U.S. – the economy was booming, we were ...
Read moreThe Little Neutral One
By Dr. Zoomie
A century ago was a heady time to be a physicist – new phenomena, new ...
Read moreAbout That Tritium…
By Dr. Zoomie
I noticed recently a flurry of articles about Japan’s recent announcement that it planned to ...
Read moreNuclear Medicine
By Dr. Zoomie
This month marks the 80th anniversary of doctors injecting radioactivity into their patients – not ...
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