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Nuclear Explained - Food and agriculture
Nuclear Explained
How to Control Insect Pests Using Radiation
The use of radiation can help in the regulation or management of pests — known as pest control — effectively preventing insect-related risks to human and animal health, the ecosystems and food security (including crop and livestock production). Methods using radiation for pest control include the sterile insect technique (SIT), inherited sterility and biological control. Read more →
What is Radiation?
Radiation is energy that moves from one place to another in a form that can be described as waves or particles. We are exposed to radiation in our everyday life. Read more →
What is Deuterium?
Deuterium is a stable isotope of hydrogen, which, unlike “normal” hydrogen atoms, or protium, also contains a neutron. Read more →
What is Mutation Breeding?
Plant mutation breeding, also called variation breeding, is a method that uses physical radiation or chemical means to induce spontaneous genetic variation in plants to develop new crop varieties. Read more →
What are Isotopes?
Like everything we see in the world, isotopes are a type of atom, the smallest unit of matter that retains all the chemical properties of an element. Isotopes are forms of a chemical element with specific properties. Read more →
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