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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 ...

The Nuclear Fuel Services plant in Erwin is one of only two sites licensed by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to store and process radioactive highly enriched uranium.