Under the draft proposal, the principle that exposure should be “as low as reasonably achievable” will be replaced with hard ...

Talk about a powerhouse food. Like anything within its radius, food can also be susceptible to the effects of nuclear contamination, even decades after an event. But one food may actually protect ...

Vladimir Putin's recent threats of nuclear weapon use are deeply concerning. A nuclear war would have catastrophic consequences, both short and long-term, including radiation-induced cancers. However, ...

OKUMA, Japan — The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant’s radiation levels have significantly dropped since the cataclysmic meltdown 14 years ago Tuesday. Workers walk around in many areas wearing ...

Radiation is energy that moves from one place to another in a form that can be described as waves or particles. We are exposed to radiation in our everyday life. Some of the most familiar sources of ...

Anyone who watched the gripping 2019 “Chernobyl” miniseries on HBO could be forgiven for thinking the 1986 nuclear disaster caused the deaths of many thousands, including plant workers, cleanup teams, ...

Drugs Used in Radiation: The world is changing rapidly. Today, various types of weapons are being used to demonstrate their ...

Radiation can wreak havoc on the human body when it's exposed to high doses or for prolonged periods of time. The world understood this in horrifying detail after the Chernobyl and Fukushima Daiichi ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chinese researchers have developed a treatment that increases the survival rates of mice exposed to acute. This discovery has the ...

A fungus that evolved at Chernobyl and is now grown on the ISS, Cladosporium sphaerospermum, slightly reduced radiation levels.

(Example: Using data from the distance and shielding lab to understand the role that distance and shielding materials play in radiation exposure.) This lab was created with support from Dr. Nathaniel ...