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Berkeley Lab: Removal of Land Mines
Brief discussion of new technology to remove abandoned land mines.
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Berkeley Lab: Nuclear Weapons
Site explores the history of the first nuclear weapons and the challenges of maintaining these weapons today.
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Berkeley Lab: Nuclear Fission Energy
Resource explains and illustrates nuclear fission energy.
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Berkeley Lab: Nuclear Fusion Power
Provides a brief explanation of nuclear fusion power which offers the promise of an almost inexhaustible source of energy for future generations if the reactors can be made to work.
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Berkeley Lab: Units of Radioactivity and Dose
Learn about the units for measuring the amount of radioactivity and the categories of radiation dose.
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Berkeley Lab: Radioactivity in the Natural Environment
Charts take a look at radioactive nuclei found naturally on Earth.
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Berkeley Lab: Typical Radiation Doses
This entry explains radon doses.
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Berkeley Lab: Effects of Low Doses
Learn about the harmful effects of low doses of radiation, if any.
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Berkeley Lab: Effects of Large Doses
Entry takes a look at the harmful effects of large doses of radiation exposure.
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Berkeley Lab: Nuclear Reactor Accidents
Read about the nuclear reactor accidents at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl and learn about their serious impacts.
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Berkeley Lab: Criteria for Radiation Protection
Chart shows current EPA and NRC limits on radiation exposure.
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Berkeley Lab: Average Annual Radiation Exposure
Chart highlights the different sources of radiation exposure.
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Berkeley Lab: Nobel Prizes in Nuclear Science
Provides a list of Nobel Prize winners in the field of nuclear science that includes the discoveries of spontaneous radioactivity, radium, and the neutron.
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Berkeley Lab: Misconceptions About Nuclear Science
This site sets the record straight on some common misconceptions about Nuclear Science.
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Berkeley Lab: Expansion of the Universe
Brief explanation of the creation and expansion of the universe otherwise known as the Big Bang.
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Berkeley Lab: Phases of Nuclear Matter
A brief exploration of the states or phases of nuclear matter.
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Berkeley Lab: Unstable Nuclei
A brief examination of the Chart of the Nuclides and unstable nuclei.
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Berkeley Lab: The Atom
Presented is an overview of atomic theory concentrating on the experiments of Ernest Rutherford.
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Berkeley Lab: Theoretical Models
Resource explores three important nuclear models: Liquid Drop Model, Nuclear Shell Model, and Collective Model.
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Berkeley Lab: Basic Nuclear Science Information
Site provides the ABC's of nuclear science including radioactivity and gamma decay to fission and comic rays.
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Berkeley Lab: Particle Adventure: Hadrons, Baryons, and Mesons
This article, part of a particle physics tutorial site, explains and illustrates three kinds of quarks: hadrons, baryons, and mesons.
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Berkeley Lab: Measuring Energy Levels
This Guide to the Nuclear Wallchart is an online textbook geared to teachers. Each topic related to nuclear energy is isolated into various topics. This particular chapter explains how to measure nuclear energy levels.
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Berkeley Lab: Ncem: Electron Micrographs
This site contains a gallery of scanning electron micrographs of non living substance.
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Berkeley Lab: National Center for Electron Microscopy: An Anniversary Story
This news article contains information on the invention of the electron microscope and the advantages and disadvantages of its use. Contains three-dimensional views if the uses of the electron microscope, and other images.