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Blog Post
What material is best to protect against radiation? This demonstration will show you.
The CD V-757, a barrier shielding demonstrator, was used for lectures and demonstrations educating audiences on the best materials to protect against radiation exposure.
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News
ORAU offers $30,000 to East Tennessee teachers for STEM learning
ORAU is accepting applications for its annual Education Grants program for 2025, offering $30,000 in grant funding for teachers in five East Tennessee counties. ORAU’s education grants are available to public school educators in Anderson, Campbell,…
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Blog Post
4 facts about the Radium Boot Polish at ORAU’s Museum of Radiation and Radioactivity that will blow your mind
Learn about the Radium Boot Polish at ORAU’s Museum of Radiation and Radioactivity, including how the product got its name.
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Podcast
From artist to investigating the terrain of one of Saturn's moons: Joey Pasterski, Ph.D., NASA Postdoctoral Fellow
Joey Pasterski, Ph.D., is not your traditional scientist. He took piano and voice and avoided science at all costs until he went back to school in his later twenties. Today, Pasterski is a NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow researching laser…
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Blog Post
Calculated innovation: ORAU health physicist develops app to guide survey planners to best tools, techniques
An ORAU health physicist had an idea to standardize and simplify the complex steps and mathematics that go into preparing for a radiation survey because it would help countless health physicists who do the same kind of work.
