Collaborate Disseminate
Many of us don’t think too much about radiation levels in our area, until a nuclear disaster hits and questions are raised. Radiation monitoring is an important undertaking, both from a public health perspective and as a way to monitor things like weapon development. So why is it done, how …read more
Continue reading Global Radiation Montoring And Tracking Nuclear Disasters At Home
This multifaceted fail comes to us straight from the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, where a group of friends apparently decided that a fun weekend project would be trying to turn over the iconic ferris wheel in the Pripyat Amusement Park. The [Kreosan] crew documented their admittedly very creative attempt at suicide …read more
Continue reading Fail of the Week: Spinning the Pripyat Ferris Wheel
Have you been watching Chernobyl? Well, so has everyone else. Right now it seems the whole Internet is comprised of armchair dosimetrists counting roentgens in their sleep, but [Mark Wright] doesn’t need a high-budget TV show to tell him about the challenges of wrangling the atom with 1980s technology. …read more
Continue reading Nuclear Reactor Simulator Is The Project Of A Lifetime
An international research project found that high concentrations of radioactive material in glaciers around the world could be exposed due to climate change. Continue reading Melting Glaciers Could Unleash Nuclear Fallout Trapped Within the Ice
When featuring cool hacks repurposing one thing for something else, we prefer to focus on what we could get our hands on and replicate for ourselves. Not this one, though, as nobody else has the misfortune of being responsible for 2,000 square kilometers (772 square miles) of radioactive contaminated land like the government of Ukraine. Trying to make the best of what they have, they’ve just launched a pilot program working to put up solar power farms inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.
This is sure to invite some jokes in the comments section, but the idea has merit. Thirty years …read more
Continue reading Solar Power For Chernobyl’s Second Generation of Electricity
The young gray wolf travelled 369 km outside of its home range in 21 days. Continue reading A Lone Wolf Left Chernobyl’s Radioactive Exclusion Zone—Will Others Follow?
Some of the descendants of the region’s abandoned dogs are up for adoption. Continue reading The Radioactive Puppies of Chernobyl Will Find Homes in the United States
The 20-year-old CIH virus, aka “Chernobyl”, isn’t just a museum curiosity. It still has plenty of lessons to teach us today. Continue reading 20 years ago today! What we can learn from the CIH virus…
How to use toxic waste to generate “toxic waste.” Continue reading Radioactive Material From Chernobyl Will Help Secure the Next Version of Zcash
Whenever there’s a new Windows virus out there wreaking global havoc, the Linux types get smug. “That’ll never happen in our open operating system,” they say. “There are many eyes looking over the source code.” But then there’s a Heartbleed vulnerability that keeps them humble for a little while. Anyway, at least patches are propagated faster in the Linux world, right?
While the Linuxers are holier-than-thou, the Windows folks get defensive. They say that the problem isn’t with Windows, it’s just that it’s the number one target because it’s the most popular OS. Wrong, that’d be Android for the last …read more
Continue reading Free as in Beer, or the Story of Windows Viruses