When most people think of the world’s most famous Radioactive spaces, they generally think of disaster zones like the area surrounding the doomed Chernobyl power plant in Pripyat. The word radioactive brings to mind a man-made catastrophe brought on by an accident at a nuclear power plant, or a top secret nuclear weapons test on a remote island in the Pacific. Radioactivity isn’t always the result of human intervention. Certain landscapes—such as the Brazilian town of Guarapari’s beaches—are naturally radioactive due to the presence of a mineral called monazite. In the 1880s, Austrian inventor Carl Auer von Welsbach developed a […]
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