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Pollution: Land
How does land get polluted, and what with? Discover the quantities of waste deposited in landfills each year, and just how much could be recycled. Earth Science - Human Impacts - Learning Points. Landfills are holes in the ground where...
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The Elements: Radium
Learn why radium is so radioactive it can both cause and cure cancer. Chemistry - Periodic Table - Learning Points. Marie and Pierre Curie discovered radium in 1898. Radium is a product of the radioactive decay of uranium. Exposure to...
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Nuclear Weapons
How the principles of nuclear physics have been used to unleash massive destruction. How do fission bombs and thermonuclear bombs work, and what are the differences between the two? Physics - Energy And Radioactivity - Learning Points....
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Chernobyl Disaster
In 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded. What caused the explosion and why has Chernobyl become a lasting reminder of the dangers of nuclear power? Earth Science - Earth's Resources - Learning Points. The world's first...
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Nuclear Power
How is this powerful and controversial energy source produced? Do the advantages outweigh the dangers of nuclear power? Earth Science - Earth's Resources - Learning Points. Nuclear power is created using uranium, and small amounts can...
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Nuclear Waste
Nuclear fission is the process used in nuclear power plants, which creates radioactive nuclear waste that is hazardous to humans. Discover how this nuclear waste is disposed of and stored. Earth Science - Earth's Resources - Learning...
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Radioactive Half-Life
Discover how radioactive substances change over time, and how this affects whether they are hazardous to humans. Physics - Energy And Radioactivity - Learning Points. Dangerous radioactive substances will not be dangerous forever due to...
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Gamma ray
High energy electromagnetic radiation, with extremely short wavelengths, often smaller than an atom. A Twig Science Glossary Film. Key scientific terms defined in just 60 seconds using stunning images and concise textual definitions....
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Why Aren't We Using Nuclear Fusion To Solve Our Energy Crisis?
We aren’t using nuclear fusion to generate power yet because it is incredibly difficult to sustain a fusion reaction. The energy requirements are very high, and it is hard to find materials that can withstand such high temperatures. For...
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GCSE Physics - Why Radiation is Harmful #36
This video covers: - What irradiation is - What contamination is - What determines have harmful radiation is: 1. Type of radiation 2. Where you're exposed to it 3. The dose of radiation - Safety precautions General info: - Suitable for...
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GCSE Physics - Radioactive Decay and Half Life #35
This video covers: - How radioactive decay works - What activity means - The two definitions of half-life - How to show radioactive decay on a graph - How we can find the count rate with a Geiger–Müller tube - Example calculation for...
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GCSE Physics - Alpha, Beta and Gamma Radiation #33
This video covers: - The idea that radioactive materials contain unstable isotopes - What alpha, beta, gamma and neutron radiation is - How ionising and penetrating they are General info: - Suitable for all GCSE and IGCSE courses -...
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Transition Metals Song Periodic Table
Learn about the Periodic Table's Transition Metals with Transition Metals by KLT.
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Actinide Metals/Periodic Table Song
Learn about the Actinide Metals in the periodic table with this fun educational music video and parents. Brought to you by KLT. Don't forget to sing along.
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Neutrons and Isotopes
Neutrons and Isotopes describes how neutron loss or gain affects the stability of an atom by using terms such as isotope, atomic mass, unstable, and decay.
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The Nuclear Disaster of Chernobyl
The Nuclear Disaster of Chernobyl analyzes the nuclear disaster of Ukraine and Chernobyl and the effects on health and society.
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Exposing a Government Secret: The Greenbrier Bunker
The Greenbrier Bunker was constructed to protect Congress from nuclear annihilation. It’s one of America’s longest-kept secrets.
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104 Chernobyl Disaster - One Minute History
Pripyat, Ukraine. In the early morning hours of April 26, 1986, Soviet engineers are tasked with conducting a safety test of Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Unfortunately, the third shift engineers on duty have not been...
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Characteristics of a Wave
Characteristics of a Wave explores the characteristics of a wave by defining the terms wave, amplitude, crest, trough, wavelength, and frequency.
The Guardian
Imagining Life After Adolescence
Sam and the Plant Next Door part 4 Sam and his friend discuss what the future could look like for themselves and for their town. They express a fear of changing as they grow up but also a curiousity about new experiences.
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French nuclear tests contaminated 110,000 people — study
France conducted 193 nuclear tests not far from Tahiti, exposing the local population and French soldiers to high levels of radiation.
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Hazards From Radioactive Material
Hazards From Radioactive Material | Radioactivity | Physics | FuseSchool Nuclear power stations produce electricity, which of course is extremely useful. However, they also make radioactive waste. When items have no further use and have...
Dom Burgess
What is Fusion?
Dom explores how fusion works and the current technology out there making it happen - including France's colossal experimental reactor, ITER, and the soon to be switched on Wendelstein 7X in Germany.
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Japan to dump radioactive Fukushima water into the Pacific
Cleaning up the radioactive mess that is the Fukushima nuclear plant, is expected to take many more decades.