Jon-Magnus Tangen

01.02.2021: Sunniva Rose Vi er stjernestøv [We are stardust] Nuclear physics for all. 177 pp., ill. Oslo: Egmont Publishing, 2020. ISBN 978-82-42-6911-8 Sunniva Rose is a social media influencer with a PhD in nuclear physics. In recent years, she has demonstrated through her blog that she has a special talent...

24.05.2016: 2016 marks the 30 th and 5 th anniversaries of the accidents at the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear power plants respectively. Both incidents had a considerable environmental impact, and large population groups were exposed to elevated doses of radiation. After the Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine, the...

25.08.2015: Gale, Robert Peter Lax, Eric Radiation What it is, what you need to know. 271 pages. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 2013. Price USD 17 ISBN 978-0-307-95020-8 Radioactive sources are in use everywhere – in industry, at airport security checks, and above all in medicine. However, little is generally...

29.10.2013: The increased risk of terrorist acts that could involve the use of radioactive sources calls for us to be prepared that a major radiation incident may occur in our country as well. On the basis of a manual published recently by the Norwegian Center for NBC Medicine, Oslo University Hospital Ullevål...

29.11.2011: The accident at the Fukushima nuclear power station in Japan in 2011 is the second biggest nuclear accident in history. Like the Chernobyl accident, it has been assigned the highest severity rating on the International Nuclear Event Scale. Fortunately, it is concluded today that the consequences...