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Sunday, March 27, 2011

Japan’s Radiation Scare: The Good News and the Bad Jeremy Bernstein

A storage pool for spent nuclear fuel. The blue color is caused by Cerenkov radation, produced when electrons from the radioactive decay are moving faster than the speed of light in water.

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