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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.
One Minute History
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.
Next Animation Studio
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.
FuseSchool
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.
Next Animation Studio
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.
FuseSchool
Half life
Half life | Radioactivity | Physics | FuseSchool This atom has an unstable nucleus. Any moment now it may undergo radioactive decay. Any time now... Or it may not! We just don’t know, as decay is a random event. We cannot predict when...
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Understanding Background Radiation: Sources and Exposure
This video is a lecture that explains the concept of background radiation, which is a type of ionizing radiation that humans are exposed to every day but at low levels. The video discusses the four main types of ionizing radiation, which...
Next Animation Studio
Russia testing doomsday torpedo, nuclear-powered missile
Moscow is testing a cruise missile with a nuclear warhead at the front and a nuclear engine at the rear, plus a huge torpedo designed to cause radioactive tsunamis.
Next Animation Studio
Iodine I131: effects on health and prevention with Iodine tablets
This animation explains how radioactive Iodine is absorbed in the body and how taking Iodine tablets can prevent its carcinogenic effects. It also explains side effects of Iodine tablets.
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Polonium suspected in death of Arafat: reports
Tests by a Swiss laboratory have found significant levels of Polonium on the clothing of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. The test results will raise doubts about the 2004 death of Arafat, in which poisoning was initially ruled...
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Ten years after tsunami, Fukushima cleanup just starting
Experts say cleaning up the leaking nuclear reactors will take another 30 years and billions of dollars more.