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radiation

[rey-dee-ey-shuhn] / ˌreɪ diˈeɪ ʃən /




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One checked their monitors and said radiation levels were "off the charts", Nikolai remembers.

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026

A few days after they arrived, doctors monitoring the evacuees for radiation gave them unexpected news - Iryna was three months pregnant.

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026

This thinning allowed more harmful ultraviolet radiation from the sun to reach Earth's surface.

From Science Daily • Apr. 16, 2026

In the 1960s Stephen Hawking demonstrated the Big Bang in theory, while Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson had detected the background radiation that proved decisive evidence of the event.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

To make matters worse, the plant’s store of alarm pocket dosimeters, which let out a high-pitched two-tone alarm if the radiation level climbs too quickly, was largely wiped out by the tsunami.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland




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