Metropolitan Digital

Men's Weekly


.

Potato plant radiation sensors could one day monitor radiation in areas surrounding power plants

  • Written by Robert Sears, Graduate Research Assistant in Plant Science, University of Tennessee
Potato plant radiation sensors could one day monitor radiation in areas surrounding power plantsFields of genetically modified potato plants could detect radiation. AP Photo/John Miller

While expanding nuclear energy production would provide carbon-free power and can help countries around the world meet their climate goals, nuclear energy could also come with some inherent risk. Radioactive pollution damages the environment, and it’s...

Read more: Potato plant radiation sensors could one day monitor radiation in areas surrounding power plants

More Articles ...

  1. I’ve been studying astronaut psychology since Apollo − a long voyage to Mars in a confined space could raise stress levels and make the journey more challenging
  2. What is Alaskapox? A microbiologist explains the recently discovered virus that just claimed its first fatality
  3. 3D printing promises more efficient ways to make custom explosives and rocket propellants
  4. Carbon offsets bring new investment to Appalachia’s coal fields, but most Appalachians aren’t benefiting
  5. Murderous mice attack and kill nesting albatrosses on Midway Atoll − scientists struggle to stop this gruesome new behavior
  6. Separate water fountains for Black people still stand in the South – thinly veiled monuments to the long, strange, dehumanizing history of segregation
  7. How politicians can draw fairer election districts − the same way parents make kids fairly split a piece of cake
  8. Nikki Haley insists she can lose South Carolina and still get the nomination – but that would defy history
  9. How Lula’s big-tent pragmatism won over Brazil again – with a little help from a backlash to Bolsonaro
  10. Nearly 2 million Americans are using kratom yearly, but it is banned in multiple states: A pharmacologist explains the controversy
Metropolitan republishes selected articles from The Conversation USA with permission

Visit The Conversation to see more