The radioactive isotopes even at low levels can be recognized by radiation detectors at airports and borders, leading to the ...

The faded “ fallout shelter ” sign with three yellow triangles above the door is one of tens of thousands still visible on building façades today. They serve as a grim reminder of the hottest flashes ...

Thirty years after this magazine published John Hersey’s “ Hiroshima ,” I sat in his classroom at Yale, hoping to learn how ...

A concerning find was recently made at the Savannah River Site’s F-Area Tank Farm, involving the discovery of a radioactive ...

Free potassium iodide tablets will be distributed Aug. 14 by the PA Department of Health to those within 10 miles of the four active nuclear plants.

Researchers pushed screwworms out of Texas by the 1970s. Now that they are on their way back, agriculture leaders and ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Eighty years ago – on Aug. 6 and 9, 1945 – the U.S. military dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, thrusting humanity into a terrifying new age. In mere moments, ...

Donald Trump wants to knock down the fine old East Wing of the White House and replace it with a giant ballroom. That’s too ...

Environmental officials at Monday night's Citizens Advisory Committee meeting said radiation at the S.F. Bayview shipyard is ...

These records cap years of issues surrounding the nuclear operations of the state’s largest utility, Florida Power & Light, most of which have been disclosed in highly technical reports that have ...

In response, this project run by the University of the Witwatersrand is using radiation to support conservation and enforcement efforts. After two years of initial tests, the Rhisotope Project was ...

South Carolina workers discovered a radioactive wasp nest at the site of a facility that used to make materials for nuclear ...