TWiEVO 88: Dog days of evolution in the shadows of Chernobyl
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The Impact of Nuclear Weapons Testing on the Environment
"This is a different scale, I think, by orders of magnitude," Nicholas says. "They've been looking at people, right? It's easy to look for increases in cancers and so forth." The nuclear plant used graphite as a moderator; normally Western reactors use water. Graphite burned for days basically making a radioactive bonfire that pushed radioactivity around.
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