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Chernobyl Fungus Seems to Have Evolved an Incredible Ability
Cladosporium sphaerospermum thrives on radiation in Chernobyl reactor, showing resistance and potential for radiation shielding in space, according to 2022 ISS experiment.
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A Chernobyl Fungus Learned to Eat Radiation: DARPA Wants to Use It to Grow Military Structures in Space and the Pentagon Is Training It to Detect Secret Nuclear Tests
From Chernobyl’s Reactor to DARPA’s Lab to the International Space Station: How a Fungus Became a Pentagon Priority Nearly 40 years ago, in April of 1986, the worst nuclear accident in history took place at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in what was then the Soviet Union, but is part of what’s now Ukraine. As described by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, it happened on April 26, 1986, when “a sudden surge of power during a reactor systems …
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