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This was kept as a deep, dark secret for almost 40 years, from its discovery in 1959 through 1998, when it was revealed as part of a legal settlement. According to a new study, tobacco companies knew that cigarette smoke contained radioactive alpha particles for more than four decades and developed "deep and intimate" knowledge of these particles’ cancer-causing potential, but they deliberately kept their findings from the public.
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One way to determine what the aftermath of radioactive pollution from the meltdown of the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan will be is to look at what happened in Eastern Europe after Chernobyl exploded in 1986. When talking about Chernobyl in the July 12th edition of the New York Times, Joe Nocera notes that, "Oddly enough, the 25th anniversary of the worst nuclear accident in history has been marked by journalism about animals." But he knows someone who was directly exposed to radiation from the power plant meltdown in the Ukraine.
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Epic.org has just obtained documents they requested in a FOIA lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security, documenting the radiation risks of TSA’s airport body scanner program. These documents include agency emails, radiation studies, memoranda of agreement concerning radiation testing programs, and results of some radiation tests.
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We know that the Sun has an effect on radioactive particles here on Earth. As the 2012 presidential election starts to heat up, we ask ourselves: Could the Sun also influence our politics? Russian scientist Alexander Chizhevsky proposed this theory in 1915: Solar storms, interacting with the Earth’s magnetic field, trigger conflict, wars and death by causing mass changes in human moods, emotions and behavioral patterns.
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