Marie Curie’s Radioactive Notebooks: A Century-Old Warning in Lead-Lined Boxes
Marie Curie’s research notebooks remain dangerously radioactive a century after her death, requiring lead-lined storage and protective gear for scholars to view them.
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MIT Physicists Develop New Electron-Based Technique to Explore Atomic Nuclei
MIT physicists developed a tabletop technique using molecules to study the interior of an atom's nucleus by tracking electron energy shifts, providing a new way to probe nuclear structure and fundamental symmetries, especially in radium, which could shed light on matter-antimatter imbalance in the universe.
"Study Finds Radium in Mussels Near Wastewater Treatment Plant"
A study by Penn State researchers found that freshwater mussels downstream of a decommissioned wastewater treatment plant in Western Pennsylvania, which had treated fracking wastewater, contained radium in their tissues and shells. The contamination, traced to the Marcellus Shale fracking operations, raises concerns about the ecological impact and potential health risks to other aquatic life and species that consume mussels.
"Water Safety Concerns Plague Colorado Mobile Home Park Residents"
Many residents of mobile home parks in Colorado, including Elephant Rock Mobile Home Park, are afraid to drink the tap water due to high levels of radium, a cancerous radioactive metal, found in the private groundwater wells that provide water to these communities. State legislators have received numerous complaints about smelly, discolored water that tastes bad and could be hazardous to residents' health. Mobile home park residents, many of whom have low incomes, fear eviction if they file water contamination complaints. The state recently passed a law requiring testing of water at mobile home parks and mandating remediation of any contaminated water found.