]> 2026-06-14T03:20:09+02:00 Annotation:Text:The Logic of Scientific Fallibility/Vyd3w5dhwi 248 en ^"permissions":^"read":ӶӺ,"update":ӶӺ,"delete":ӶӺ,"admin":ӶӺ°,"user":^"id":6,"name":"Sarah Oberbichler"°,"id":"Vyd3w5dhwi","ranges":Ӷ^"start":"/divӶ3Ӻ/divӶ4Ӻ/divӶ1Ӻ/pӶ6Ӻ","startOffset":0,"end":"/divӶ3Ӻ/divӶ4Ӻ/divӶ1Ӻ/blockquoteӶ1Ӻ/pӶ1Ӻ/supӶ1Ӻ/aӶ1Ӻ","endOffset":3°Ӻ,"quote":"To approach this point, I should like to tell a story. It’s a very simple little story. It reads like a fairy tale, but it is not. In fact, it is a rather serious story. I quote it from Science, the journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. It appeared in the issue of June 26, 1987:\n\nIn 1959, a badger broke through the security lines here at the world’s first plutonium factory (the Department of Energy facility at Hanford, in the State of Washington). The badger ignored all the warnings and dug a hole in one of the waste pits. After he left, rabbits began to stop by for an occasional lick of salt, but it was no ordinary salt they found. Before long, they scattered 200 curies of radioactive droppings over 2500 acres of the Hanford Reserve. The rabbit mess ... created one of the largest contaminated areas, one that remains hot today with cesium-137 (half-life of 30 years) and strontium-90 (half-life 28 ys.).\nHanford also has trouble with ground squirrels, burrowing owls, pocket mice, insects, and plants like rabbit brush and tumbleweed. With roots that can grow 20 feet, tumbleweeds reach down into waste dumps and take up strontium-90, break off, and blow around the dry land. If the dry weeds build up and there is a brush fire, they may produce airborne contamination...Ӷ1Ӻ","highlights":Ӷ^"jQuery321067115569029419282":^°°,^"jQuery321067115569029419282":^°°,^"jQuery321067115569029419282":^°°Ӻ,"text":"","order":"mw-content-text","category":"WissenschaftlicheReferenz2","data_creacio":1580295836286° 2020-01-29T12:03:57Z 2458878.0027431 2020-01-29T11:04:00Z 2458877.9611111 Text:The Logic of Scientific Fallibility/Vyd3w5dhwi