Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a new and faster method for detecting and measuring the radioactivity of minuscule amounts of radioactive ...

The National Nuclear Security Administration is flying helicopters at low altitudes over the District this week and next in preparation for next month’s inauguration. But the flights are not part of a ...

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

Which Geiger counter is best? If you want to monitor radiation levels from a specific source, you need a reliable Geiger ...

PERRY, Ohio — The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration will conduct low-altitude helicopter ...

Fluorescent Nuclear Track Detectors (FNTDs) represent a significant leap forward in solid-state dosimetry, utilising novel luminescent materials such as aluminium oxide crystals doped with carbon and ...

A recent study in Nature Communications suggests that Americans living closer to nuclear power plants face higher cancer ...

Fifteen years after the 2011 nuclear disaster, color-coded radiation maps hang on the wall of Futabaya Ryokan, the family-run ...

Rethinking nuclear radiation and its dangers is critical if the world is to turn away from hydrocarbon sources of energy. Many of us are seeing unwelcome spikes in our electric bills. This is due in ...

A quarter of North Korean defectors from regions near the northeastern Punggye-ri nuclear test site have shown chromosome ...