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Radiation should be able to deflect asteroids as large as 4 km across
The old joke about the dinosaurs going extinct because they didn't have a space program may be overselling the need for one. It turns out you can probably divert some of the more threatening asteroids with nothing more than the products of a nuclear weapons program. But it doesn't work the way you probably think it does.
Asteroids Could Be Deflected Using X-rays From Nuclear Weapons
Exploding a nuclear bomb above a huge asteroid could vaporize its surface using X-rays, pushing the space rock away from Earth.
Scientists say X-rays from nuclear explosion may deflect asteroids from Earth
Scientists in New Mexico conducted several experiments and learned that asteroids can be deflected from Earth using explosions of nuclear warheads above the space rock's surface.
X-rays from a nuclear explosion could redirect an asteroid
Scientists have found nuclear weapons could actually help deflect an incoming cosmic impact — not by blowing an asteroid up, but by showering it with X-ray radiation.
Breakthrough confirms nuclear blast can deflect large asteroids headed towards Earth
Most dangerous asteroids will require vast quantities of energy akin to nuclear explosion to deflect them, scientists say
Physicists Discover That Nuclear Bombs Could Probably Redirect an Asteroid
It’s essentially the same premise as the film Armageddon, however experts now say that if an asteroid was headed our way, a nuclear blast might just be enough to divert it. Using lab-based analogues,
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Orion spacecraft can shield Artemis astronauts from deep-space radiation, study shows
Data from NASA's Artemis 1 moon mission has provided valuable space radiation measurements, which validate spacecraft ...
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‘Families are suffering’ Indigenous people impacted by radiation head to Capitol Hill
More than two dozen people from the Navajo Nation, Hopi Tribe, Acoma, and Laguna Pueblos, touched by a legacy of radiation ...
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Advocates on long road to reinstate federal radiation exposure act
There were more than five hours to go before the group reached Washington, D.C. But, Loretta Anderson said, some of the women on the bus were already itching to dance. Anderson, from the Laguna Pueblo ...
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How scientists are keeping the Orion spacecraft safe from radiation
NASA's Orion spacecraft will need to protect astronauts from dangerous radiation when they visit the moon in the upcoming ...
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Navajo Nation leaders call for vote on Radiation Compensation Exposure Act
Navajo Nation tribal leaders are the latest to call on Congress to reinstate the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act. Navajo ...
NextBigFuture
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Massive SpaceX Starship Capacity Makes Radiation Shielding Easy
The radiation dose for the 2.5 year round trip between Earth and Mars should give approximately a 1% lifetime increase of a ...
Albuquerque Journal
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NM advocates, lawmakers pressure House speaker on compensation for radiation exposure
Along with advocates, Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren, Speaker of the Navajo Nation Council Crystalyne Curley, and the ...
Executive Gov
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NSWC Crane Unveils New Radiation-Hardened Microelectronics Testing Capability
The Short Pulse Gamma, also known as “Bumblebee,” will provide research, development, testing and evaluation data.
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Bill introduced to help veterans exposed to radiation at secret base
Some of these veterans live in the Chicago area, and many are scattered around the country suffering from debilitating ...
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Hospitals begin offering breakthrough radiation therapy for metastatic cancer tumors
Radiation is part of treatment for about half of cancer patients. A breakthrough could change the future of the treatment.
Oncology Nurse Advisor
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Advances in Prostate Cancer Radiation Oncology
This report is a review of recent and emerging trends that promise to make radiation oncology for prostate cancer more ...
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Stephen Hawking's black hole radiation paradox could finally be solved — if black holes aren't what they seem
New research suggests that black holes may actually be "frozen stars," bizarre quantum objects that lack a singularity and an ...
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