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10 Radioactive Products That People Actually Used

Nuclear power has long been touted as a utopian technology, ushering in an era of work-free, unlimited energy supply and correspondingly longer and healthier lives. Today it is more well-known for its dangers, which include the atom bomb and radiation poisoning . Yet for 40 years, Radium was a popular tonic added to everything from tea to lipstick. We've decided to explore some of the strangest radioactive products in history and the effects they might have had on those that used them.

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Is a German Nuclear Waste Train Poisoning Russians?

Apparently the Germans are still sore about that whole “losing to Russia in World War II” thing, and they’re getting back at them with a unique Trojan horse type solution. A train carrying nuclear waste in Bristol, England. Image by Chris McKenna A German train loaded with nuclear waste [...]

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