nuclear

June 1, 2011

No radiation threat

In the aftermath of the earthquake damage at Japan’s Fukushima Nuclear Plant, UW physicists decided to find out if the leaked radiation had traveled 5,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean to Seattle’s UW campus.


September 1, 2005

After the fallout

The world looks to Scott Davis, chair of the UW epidemiology department, for many of the answers.


June 1, 1992

Hot stuff

How do you sweep 65 million gallons of high-level radioactive waste under the sagebrush of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation?