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When nuclear accidents happen, many people imagine radiation spreading everywhere and lasting forever. The reality is more complex. Radioactive materials move, change and sometimes disappear faster ...

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When nuclear accidents happen, many people imagine radiation spreading everywhere and lasting forever. The reality is more complex. Radioactive materials move, change and sometimes disappear faster ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Eduardo B. Farfán, Kennesaw State University (THE CONVERSATION) When nuclear accidents ...

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In terms of soil contamination, the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant is only about an eighth as severe as the meltdown at the Chernobyl plant, in what is now Ukraine, in 1986, ...