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LOS ANGELES - Scientists are finding traces of radioactive fallout from atomic bomb testing during the 1950s and 1960s in honey produced in the United States today. According to a study published on ...

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Officials kept it secret citing reasons of national security. Secret government files reveal coverup of shocking incident at ...

(Reuters) - The passage of time has sharply reduced radiation from some elements with a short half-life at Japan's quake-crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant but others will stay radioactive almost ...

Radioactive materials are vital for medicine, agriculture and for nuclear energy - but the challenge is to ensure that the 20 ...