Questions tagged [ionizing-radiation]
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Why are salt domes suitable for the final disposal of nuclear waste?
I keep reading that final storage sites for nuclear waste are being built in salt domes. In the case of the German Gorleben project, the salt domes were determined to be unsuitable after prolonged ...
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Why do electrons drift Eastwards in the Van Allen belts?
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The image below shows that one of the three particle movement patterns of radiation particles that are captured in the Van Allen belts is a longitudinal drift motion:
However, I am ...
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Did Dark Lightning turn out to be a real thing? Is this what produces gamma ray flashes from lightning storms?
The Science at NASA video ScienceCasts: Dark Lightning describes observation of gamma rays from Earth by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.
These gamma rays are associated with weather that produces ...
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Why is the Regener-Pfotzer maximum (radiation in upper atmosphere) above central California?
The site https://spaceweather.com/ has a section called Space Weather Balloon Data which shows the image below and says:
The data points in the graph above correspond to the peak of the Regener-...
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