Using an infrared pulsed carbon dioxide laser, project leader Howard Milchberg and his team showed that they could detect low levels of α radiation from a polonium-210 source sitting 10 m away ...

(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) Workers carry out the dismantling work of the treated water tanks at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear ...

Nine months have passed since the law that compensates US victims of radiation exposure expired in June, and yet another opportunity to reinstate it fell to the wayside last week. The Radiation ...

Satellite images, documents, photos, and expert witnesses reveal extensive construction activity at a site in Belarus ...

About 100 cubic metres of "radioactive coolant" leaked from Finland's Olkiluoto 3 nuclear reactor, the largest in Europe, operator TVO said Monday, adding that the incident posed no safety risk.

For researchers, the mid- and long-term health consequences from such exposure has been challenging to understand, in part because the damage manifests differently among female and male survivors, ...

Scientists have developed a prototype nuclear battery using radiocarbon that could power small devices for decades without ...

His inspiration came from Taylor Wilson's TED talk. A 12-year-old boy from Memphis, US, recently received an unexpected visit from the FBI after successfully building a nuclear fusion reactor in ...

Many scientists say “subcritical” experiments and computer simulations make nuclear weapons testing unnecessary.

“The track record for this industry is abysmal,” said Taylor McKinnon, who is the southwest director of the environmental ...

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The International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES) is a tool for communicating the safety significance of nuclear and radiological events to the public. Member States use INES on a ...