Radiation News Roundup for August 16, 2013 Studies on dental X-rays have linked them to cancer, meningiomas (brain tumors), and more, yet radiation in many dental offices is actually rising as CT manufacturers heavily market the machines to dentists. straight.com Ten workers at Japan's crippled nuclear plant were exposed Monday to small amounts of radiation while conducting cleanup activities, foxnews.com TEPCO has sent engineers on visits to the Hanford site in Washington state this year to learn from decades of work treating millions of gallons of radioactive waste. Bloomberg.com An international fund managed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is spending an estimated $2 billion to build a new confinement shelter to protect the world from Chernobyl’s radioactivity for the next 100 years. Nuclear-news.net
