Today we celebrate the birthday of not one, but two amazing women in science! 🤗🎉Marie Skłodowska-Curie (1867), who discovered #radium & #polonium & pioneered #radioactivity, & Lise Meitner (1878), whose brilliance uncovered the physics behind #nuclearfission. Happy birthday! #OTD #WomenInStem #WomeninScience

"The moment of discovery" does not always exist: the scientist's work is too tenuous, too divided, for the certainty of success to crackle out suddenly in the midst of his laborious toil like a stroke of lightening, dazzling him by its fire.

In: Eve Curie - Madame Curie - Chapter XII (p. 158)

~Marie Curie #BOTD in 1867.

#physics #radioactivity #womeninStem

Today we celebrate the birthday of not one, but two amazing women in science! 🤗🎉Marie Skłodowska-Curie (1867), who discovered #radium & #polonium & pioneered #radioactivity, & Lise Meitner (1878), whose brilliance uncovered the physics behind #nuclearfission. Happy birthday! #OTD #WomenInStem #WomeninScience

Her pioneering work explaining #radioactivity earned her the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband Pierre Curie & with physicist Henri Becquerel. At first, the Committee intended to honour only Pierre & Becquerel, but Swedish mathematician Magnus Goesta Mittag-Leffler, an advocate of women in science alerted Pierre to the situation. After Pierre’s complaint, Marie’s name was added to the nomination. 🧵4/5

"The moment of discovery" does not always exist: the scientist's work is too tenuous, too divided, for the certainty of success to crackle out suddenly in the midst of his laborious toil like a stroke of lightening, dazzling him by its fire.

In: Eve Curie - Madame Curie - Chapter XII (p. 158)

~Marie Curie #BOTD in 1867.

#physics #radioactivity #womeninStem

***stupid questions:

1. WHY IS YOUR CEMETERY RADIOACTIVE!

2. WHAT WAS RADIOACTIVE IN YOU CEMETERY? Was it a buried person?!?!

3. WHERE DID THE RADIOACTIVITY COME FROM ORIGINALLY?!?!

4. CEMENT?!?!?!

#random #radioactivity

Antara News: Ministry confirms C-137 handling in South Lampung completed

October 31, 2025

"...“The task force has completed the handling of cesium-137 radionuclides in South Lampung,” he said in Serang, Banten, on Friday.

He added that the cemetery area where the initial contamination was detected has been sealed with concrete to prevent further spread of radioactive particles.

“The area in South Lampung, particularly at the cemetery site, is now clear,” Hanif confirmed...."

https://en.antaranews.com/news/389345/ministry-confirms-c-137-handling-in-south-lampung-completed

#radioactivity #indonesia #lampung #cesium137

Contractor falls into tank of water at Palisades

"COVERT TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — A worker sustained minor injuries when they fell into a water-filled tank at the Palisades nuclear power plant in Southwest Michigan.

It happened Tuesday at the plant along Lake Michigan in Covert Township, south of South Haven, according to a report filed with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Palisades owner Holtec International told News 8 in a statement that a contractor was working in the containment building when they fell into a tank above the reactor that was filled with water in preparation for future fuel movements. The report says the contractor swallowed some of the water."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/contractor-falls-tank-water-palisades-171906888.html

#radioactivity #nuclearpower #nukes

The hunt for Marie Curie's radioactive fingerprints in Paris

Marie Curie worked with radioactive material with her bare hands. More than 100 years after her groundbreaking work, Sophie Hardach travels to Paris to trace the lingering radioactive fingerprints she left behind.

By Sophie Hardach

https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20250605-the-hunt-for-marie-curies-radioactive-fingerprints-in-paris

Marie Curie at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/39174

#radioactivity #womenInStem

The hunt for Marie Curie's radioactive fingerprints in Paris

Marie Curie worked with radioactive material with her bare hands. More than 100 years after her groundbreaking work, Sophie Hardach travels to Paris to trace the lingering radioactive fingerprints she left behind.

By Sophie Hardach

https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20250605-the-hunt-for-marie-curies-radioactive-fingerprints-in-paris

Marie Curie at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/39174

#radioactivity #womenInStem

Apparently a massive Cesium-137 contamination event in West Java, involving six areas and 700kg of scrap metal

(all related to the radioactive shrimp)

https://en.tempo.co/read/2051549/six-areas-in-west-javas-banten-contaminated-by-cesium-137-radiation

#radioactivity #shrimp

Interesting, so the most radioactive things here at my house (only slightly above background, not terribly radioactive):

1. Granite countertop (this is a known thing)
2. Night lights (apparently, tritium in there to make them glow)
3. Smoke detectors (bit o'radioactivity in there)
4. Rebar in the garden (hmmmmmmmmmmmm... apparently some radioactivity in the stream, this is where it's shown up in massive contamination events in the past, i.e Ciudad Juarez and the radioactive Taiwanese apartments).
5. Maybe (tough to tell) -- some of the newer drywall. Only slightly more active against it, not a lot.

What provides far more clicking was standing out in the sun. LOL

#geigercounter #radioactivity

Lolsob

After massive shrimp recalls, the FDA finds radioactive contamination in spices too - ABC News
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/after-massive-shrimp-recalls-fda-finds-radioactive-contamination-125977394

#radioactivity #spices