Category Archives: Radiochemistry
Two years after Fukushima: Carlsbad radiation center helped monitor US for nuclear fallout
From the Current-Argus, Carlsbad (3/12/2013) — Two years ago this week, the world watched in horror as a massive earthquake registering 9.0 on the Richter Scale hit Japan, followed by a tsunami on the country’s east coast, killing thousands of people. While the loss of life and property was tremendous, it could have been far…Continue Reading »
Carlsbad Scientist off to Austria for international atomic energy conference
CARLSBAD — Carlsbad scientist Dr. Punam Thakur has been invited to attend an exclusive consultancy meeting in Vienna, Austria, in September. Thakur, a radio chemist with the Carlsbad Environ-mental Monitoring and Research Center in Carlsbad, received her invitation last week to provide her expertise and participate in an International Atomic Energy Agency meeting on the…Continue Reading »