Japan is one of the earth’s most earthquake-prone areas, and because of Fukushima’s daily accumulation of contaminated cooling water, some 1.3 million tonnes of this highly radioactive liquid ...

Mumbai: The treatment chamber's walls had to be lead-shielded, the next few rooms vacated and several other strict safety measures put in place before two highly radioactive injections were given ...

An internal Mallinckrodt memo from 1949 shows the company was storing highly radioactive residue called K-65 in deteriorating steel drums at the St. Louis airport near Coldwater Creek.

Spent nuclear fuel remains highly radioactive for thousands of years and can be very dangerous if not properly handled and maintained.[3] The issue of how and where to store this waste has been ...

However, the radiation has caused genetic mutations. Trees in the highly radioactive "Red Forest"—named for the reddish-brown pines killed by the initial radiation surge—grow with distorted ...

Radioactive materials are found naturally in the Earth. But even so, saying an area is radioactive may conjure up images of things you find in a sci-fi films including green glowing men and the ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A three-year veil of secrecy in the name of national security was used to keep the public in the dark about the handling of highly enriched uranium ...

Nations have been fighting, thieving, murdering and spying in Jerusalem for millennia. It is a city of secrets that straddles civilisations.

Enrichment sites have none of the hazards of nuclear meltdowns, which can occur at nuclear reactors and release highly radioactive, toxic materials into the environment.

The Manhattan Project's Trinity test bomb detonated on July 16, 1945. The light, noise, shockwave, and fallout cloud were impossible to keep secret.

Modern-day Research and the Quest for Answers Even decades after the explosion, the Elephant’s Foot remains highly radioactive, a dangerous reminder of Chernobyl ’s destructive power.

The Manhattan Project's Trinity test bomb detonated on July 16, 1945. The light, noise, shockwave, and fallout cloud were impossible to keep secret.