LONDON The deadly radioactive element polonium first hit the headlines when it was used to kill KGB agent-turned-Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006. Scientists at Switzerland's ...
Martin Boland has received funding from and collaborates with the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation. First, we need to understand the basics of radioactivity. Radioactivity is the ...
Polonium-210 is a highly radioactive and extremely toxic material, but to be used as a lethal poison it requires direct contact with a body’s inner tissues. A microgram of polonium 210 – the size of a ...