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In a process similar to how bananas and Brazil nuts become radioactive, tobacco plants can absorb radioactive elements such as radium, lead-210, and polonium-210 from some fertilizers used on crops.

In this plant, grown from a single tobacco cell that experienced an EGT event, flowers have four or three petals, which is likely the consequence of a mutation and/or instability in the nuclear ...

A nuclear power renaissance—driven in part by power-hungry AI data centers—has revived a thorny problem: what to do with the radioactive waste left behind. Already, more than 90,000 metric ...