Radioactivity Current Affairs, GK & News

Import of Uranium by India

Uranium is a chemical element which is found in nature as uranium-238, uranium-235 and a very small amount of uranium-234. It decays very slowly by emitting an alpha particle but has an exceptionally long half-life (uranium-238  has a half-life of about 4.47 billion years while uranium-235 has a half-life of 704 million years). It makes ..

Topics: Half-life • Nuclear Power • Radioactivity • Uranium

US Nuclear waste dump plant marks 20 years

With tons of cold war era nuclear waste and decades of bomb making, US started this undergroung nuclear waste isolation program. The program has now successfully proved that radioactive waste could be safely disposed deep underground rendering less threat to the environment. However there had been minor accidents in the plant. A radiation leak in ..

Category: Environment Current Affairs

Topics: Energy • Environmental impact of nuclear power • Hazardous waste • High-level radioactive waste management • Nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents • Nuclear physics • Nuclear technology • Radioactive waste • Radioactive Waste Repository Authority • Radioactivity

Cyclone-30, India’s biggest cyclotron facility becomes operational

India’s biggest cyclotron facility “Cyclone-30” has become operational at the Kolkata-based Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (VECC) under the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) for treatment of cancer. The facility produces a 30MeV beam that will be used to produce radioisotopes for medical imaging & diagnosis. The Cyclone-30 is in the first phase of production generating ..

Topics: Chemistry • Cyclotron • Iodine-123 • Medicinal radiochemistry • Natural sciences • Nuclear medicine • Physical sciences • Radioactive tracer • Radioactivity • Radiobiology • Radionuclide • Radiopharmaceuticals

The scientists at INMAS develops India’s first indigenous anti-nuclear medical kit

The scientist at INMAS claim to have developed India’s first indigenous medical kit that may ensure protection from serious injuries and faster healing of wounds resulting from nuclear warfare or radioactive leakage. The medical kit has been developed for the armed, paramilitary and police forces only as they are the first ones likely to get ..

Topics: Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid • Ionizing radiation • Natural sciences • Nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents • Nuclear medicine • Nuclear physics • Nuclear warfare • Physical sciences • Radiation protection • Radioactivity • Radiobiology • Radionuclide

Marie Curie voted as most influential woman in history as per recent Readers of BBC History magazine poll

Nobel prize winning scientist Marie Curie was the most influential woman in this poll. The magazine ranked Polish born Curie at the top of a list of 100 women who changed the world, for her role in treating cancer.

Topics: Curie Institute • Ève Curie • French people • Marie Curie • Nobel laureates • Nobel laureates in Physics • Nobel Prize • Physical sciences • Radioactivity

India’s Mobile Tower Radio Emission Norms

Telcos say that they are not allowed to expand tower network due to emission issues. Emissions from mobile towers are considered safe as it is non-ionising or “low energy” radiation, which cannot alter the human DNA. At most, it can only induce thermal effects by way of mild arming of the body. Only ionising or ..

Topics: International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection • Ionizing radiation • Medical physics • Mobile Communication • Nature • Physics • Radiation • Radioactivity • Radiobiology • Science & Technology Developments • Telecom