radioactivity
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Over that period, the detector recorded around 100 antineutrino candidate events linked to residual radioactivity in the reactor cores and nearby spent-fuel cooling pools.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
Her work expanded beyond stories connected to Iran, including "Radioactive", a 2019 biopic about pioneering radioactivity researcher and Nobel-prize winner Marie Curie, starring Rosamund Pike.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
“And there’s been a lot of reasons for why this process takes so long. But, from a radiological perspective, the actual residual radioactivity at the site is pretty modest.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2025
The Burevestnik’s radioactivity could make it easy to detect.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025
There is no effective way for this heat, accumulated over billions of years, to reach the surface and be lost to space, and the radioactivity inside Ganymede and Callisto must therefore melt their icy interiors.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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