‘Serious risk of radioactive contamination’: Iran FM writes to UN over Bushehr nuclear strikes

Abbas Araghchi (Image/ANI) Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi has written a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in response to recent US-Israeli strikes targeting Tehran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant.In his letter, Araghchi wrote: “The repeated attacks by the aggressors in the vicinity of the active Bushehr nuclear power plant are of great concern. They expose […]

Runit Dome at risk: 120,000 tons of radioactive waste from a nuclear explosion threaten the Pacific | World News

PC: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (NAPF) The structural integrity of the Runit Dome in the Marshall Islands, described as a 115-meter-wide concrete ‘coffin,’ is endangered according to the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO). This dome was built over an unlined crater from a nuclear explosion that occurred in 1958 and contains over 120,000 tonnes […]

This lake is the ‘most nuked location on Earth’ and still remains dangerously radioactive; know why | World News

Source: National Geographic Where some cities fade away with time, others are deliberately erased and destroyed. Deep within Central Asia, a chilling symbol of Cold War-era secrecy has long been concealed: a region made inconspicuous on maps after it was transformed into the most nuclear-bombarded spot on earth. Hidden away for so long as a […]

Radioactive fallout: Dallas shooter Joshua Jahn’s car had a bizarre map; fired several shots indiscriminately

Investigators found a bizarre map fixed on the car that apparently belonged to Joshua Jahn, the ICe shooter. Investigators found a bizarre map attached to a car which they believe belonged to 29-year-old Joshua Jahn who killed himself after randomly firing at the ICE centre in Dallas. The map stuck to Joshua’s blue Toyota Corolla […]

Radioactive shrimps found? FDA warns against consuming certain frozen shrips; cites potential Cesium-137 contamination | World News

FDA warns against consuming certain frozen shrips; cites potential Cesium-137 contamination (Representative image) The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday warned consumers not to eat certain frozen shrimp products sold at Walmart after tests revealed possible contamination with Cesium-137, a radioactive isotope. Federal officials said three lots of Great Value brand frozen shrimp […]

Radioactive wasp nest discovered in US: Routine check findings at Cold War-era nuclear facility; radiation levels 10 times above limit

Workers at a former US nuclear weapons facility in South Carolina have uncovered a radioactive wasp nest emitting radiation levels ten times higher than regulatory limits, reports the BBC.Routine radiation checks at the Savannah River site near Aiken discovered a wasp nest early July, positioned on a post near tanks storing liquid nuclear waste.“The wasp […]