Radioactive pollution is dangerous because ... More information: Maxwell Omeje et al, Radioactivity distributions and biohazard assessment of coastal marine environments of niger-delta, Nigeria ...

In science fiction movies, things that are radioactive almost always cause trouble. But in real life, doctors can use some of them to help people. Radioactive iodine is a good example. Doctors use ...

Radioactive seed implants are a form of radiation therapy for prostate cancer. Brachytherapy, or internal radiation therapy, are also terms used to describe this procedure. There are two types of ...

Instead of being properly stored, they had ended up at the scrap yard. A crew carefully recovered four radioactive sources and transferred them to a U.S. Department of Energy storage facility near ...

Roads in Florida could soon include phosphogypsum — a radioactive waste material from the fertilizer industry — under a bill lawmakers have sent to Gov. Ron DeSantis. Conservation groups are ...

The capsule is no bigger than a coin. The health effects of coming into contact with a radioactive capsule no bigger than a coin that was lost in Western Australia-- and has since been found ...

A popular New Mexico hiking trail near a major US atomic weapons facility is allegedly contaminated with radioactive waste comparable to the ruins of Chernobyl, but the government denies there’s ...

A nuclear power renaissance—driven in part by power-hungry AI data centers—has revived a thorny problem: what to do with the radioactive waste left behind. Already, more than 90,000 metric ...

South African scientists on Tuesday injected radioactive material into live rhino horns to make them easier to detect at border posts in a pioneering project aimed at curbing poaching. The country ...

A New Jersey mayor warned Tuesday that the troubling drone sightings over the state may be linked to missing radioactive material, although federal officials say the amount poses no serious threat ...