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Scanning of Vehicles for Nuclear Materials

open access: yes, 2013
Might a nuclear-armed terrorist group or state use ordinary commerce to deliver a nuclear weapon by smuggling it in a cargo container or vehicle? This delivery method would be the only one available to a sub-state actor, and it might enable a state to ...
Katz, J. I.
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“Fight or flight”—A study of frontline emergency response workforce's perceived knowledge, and motivation to work during hazards “战斗或逃跑”——关于一线应急响应人员的感知知识和在危险期间的工作动机研究 “Lucha o huida”: Un estudio sobre el conocimiento percibido y la motivación para trabajar de la fuerza laboral de primera línea de respuesta a emergencias durante los peligros

open access: yesRisk, Hazards &Crisis in Public Policy, Volume 16, Issue 3, September 2025.
Abstract This study aims to identify different frontline emergency response workforce's perceived knowledge of hazards and their willingness and motivations to go to work during them. An online version of the “Fight or Flight” survey was distributed and collected from Norwegian emergency personnel during the spring of 2023.
Jarle L. Sørensen   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

DYNAMICS OF RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION OF AGRICULTURAL FOOD PRODUCTS AND NATURAL FOODSTUFFS AFTER THE CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT

open access: yesРадиационная гигиена, 2017
The present work is devoted to an analysis of the data on dynamics of 137Cs and 90Sr transfer factors in the most critical (during different time periods after the radioactive fallout) links of the food chain that are necessary for assessing current ...
V. N. Shutov   +4 more
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Review of Past Nuclear Accidents: Source Terms and Recorded Gamma-Ray Spectra [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
Airborne gamma ray spectrometry using high volume scintillation detectors, optionally in conjunction with Ge detectors, has potential for making rapid environmental measurements in response to nuclear accidents.
Allyson, J.D.   +4 more
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Complaint culture: the non‐market economy and moral disappointment in a late‐socialist kibbutz La culture des réclamations : économie non marchande et déception morale dans un kibboutz aux derniers temps du socialisme

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 917-936, September 2025.
In recent years, the kibbutz – a once‐idealized socialist commune in Israel – has become a common object of critique in Israeli popular culture. Many critiques focus on what can be described as the old kibbutz's ‘moral harshness’, highlighting the prevalence of informal surveillance, peer pressure, and public moralizing.
Omri Senderowicz
wiley   +1 more source

Radiocesium in lichens and reindeer after the Chernobyl accident

open access: yesRangifer, 1990
After the Chernobyl accident the sampling and measuring program of the Finnish Centre for Radiation and Nuclear Safety was intensified both for surveillance and research purposes. The deposition pattern of radionuclides was more complicated than from the
K. Rissanen, T. Rahola
doaj   +1 more source

Accountability after Nuclear War: Why Not Plan Ahead?

open access: yesJournal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2020
If nuclear war occurs, non-belligerents want the conductors to take responsibility for providing assistance to deal with harm imposed on them. This harm could take the form of radioactive fallout, climatic change that causes global food shortages and ...
George Perkovich
doaj   +1 more source

Nuclear Holocaust in American Films [PDF]

open access: yes, 1989
Ordinary people shudder at the thought that people in positions of power might do whatever they think they can get away with. But that is often the way it is in the real world, and the risks go even higher when opportunity is ...
Byrne, Edmund
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Lagrangian study of surface transport in the Kuroshio Extension area based on simulation of propagation of Fukushima-derived radionuclides

open access: yes, 2013
Lagrangian approach is applied to study near-surface large-scale transport in the Kuroshio Extension area using a simulation with synthetic particles advected by AVISO altimetric velocity field.
Budyansky, M. V.   +2 more
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Still a Man in a Lab Coat? A Scoping Review on the Stereotypical Scientist

open access: yesSociology Lens, Volume 38, Issue 3, Page 183-199, September 2025.
ABSTRACT This study reviews 106 papers selected using rigorous criteria from the Scopus database to explore the societal beliefs about scientists, thus providing a timely and comprehensive view of their social representation, that is, the stereotypical scientist.
Omar Mazzucchelli   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

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