The Philippines is confronting a new kind of security worry offshore, after scientists detected traces of nuclear material in ...

Researchers believe currents transported the material south from the Bohai and Yellow seas.

Get an x-ray, and you get a small dose of radiation to visualize your bones and body structures to help you medically. Buy a smoke detector, you’re inviting a tiny source of radiation, americium-241, ...

The latest Russian strike on Ukraine’s power grid has turned one of the world’s most infamous nuclear sites into a fresh ...

Researchers have detected higher than normal levels of iodine-129 in the West Philippine Sea. This radioactive isotope, ...

Defenders of the “as low as reasonably achievable” principle say it's the linchpin of a safety-first regulatory culture.

The rusted K-159 sank on its way to a shipyard in 2003, taking 800kg of nuclear fuel and nine Russian sailors to the seabed - The Bellona Foundation Russia has unveiled plans to raise two nuclear ...

At 3:39 p.m. on January 21, 1968, the aircraft slammed into the ice seven miles west of the base. The impact carved a ...

How atomic fallout created demand for pre-1945 'low-background' steel in scientific instruments.

Nuclear weapons testing has affected every single human on the planet, causing at least four million premature deaths from ...

Organic molecules detected in the watery plumes that spew out from cracks in the surface of Enceladus could be formed through exposure to radiation on Saturn's icy moon, rather than originating from ...

A nuclear radiation emergency has not taken place in the UK since 1957 but the UK has contingency plans for if it does happen ...