Okuma is the closest town to the three nuclear reactors that melted down at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant on March 11, 2011. On that day, a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami destroyed the ...

A fungus that evolved at Chernobyl and is now grown on the ISS, Cladosporium sphaerospermum, slightly reduced radiation levels.

The story of Chernobyl has long carried a chilling epilogue: that the people who rushed in to contain the disaster doomed not only themselves, but their children, to hidden genetic damage. The ...

The Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant lost electricity and was disconnected from Ukraine's unified power grid on Tuesday (January 20), raising serious concerns about the containment structure sealing the ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has classified a voluntary recall of frozen cooked shrimp as Class II after the product was found to have been made under insanitary conditions with ...

Gamma radiation is highly penetrating. It can penetrate most materials. Clothing provides little protection. It may be harmful if deposited internally and it may travel several meters in air and ...