Radioactive material supports many activities that improve lives around the world. Only a limited number of specialized facilities produce these materials, so safe and secure tran ...

Radioactive contamination traced to Cold War-era nuclear waste has been found in residential yards near Coldwater Creek in St. Louis County, Missouri, prompting federal testing of homes and raising ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers tested soil in the backyards of properties along the 800 block of Cades Cove Drive in ...

Thai officials said Monday they have traced to a recycling foundry a metal cylinder with radioactive contents that was discovered earlier this month missing from a power plant, but advised that there ...

What many people assumed was a relatively safe job has raised glaring concerns in the last year as rising evidence suggests that many oil and gas workers are being exposed to radioactive ...

Preparations for a scenario involving a strike on the Dimona reactor have long been part of Israel’s emergency planning.

Scientists from the University of New Hampshire and colleagues have published comprehensive findings on space-based radiation as measured by a UNH-led detector aboard NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance ...

There are many factors to consider when saying “radioactivity is hazardous.” Here is an attempt to summarize them in five points. Radiation is not an age-old reality; in fact, the discovery of ...

Elsewhere in this issue of the Journal Dr. Robbins, writing on radiation protection in diagnostic procedures, maintains that the problem of evaluating the hazards of x-ray radiation is not to be ...