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 ...

Routine reactor emissions pose no meaningful health risk to the US workers and population, a health physicist and a nuclear ...

Josh Hawley is a cosponsor of a radiation compensation reauthorization measure on Capitol Hill. But the measure was recently dropped from the final version of the annual defense bill. And Hawley is ...

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 ...

Physicists have measured a nuclear reaction that can occur in neutron star collisions, providing direct experimental data for a process that had previously only been theorised. The study provides new ...

Nuclear power plants are exposed to high-energy radiation, which degrades materials over time. Particles and rays interact with critical components, particularly in the reactor core, leading to ...

Hickory dickory dock, this nucleus could make a great clock. A special variety of the element thorium hosts an atomic nucleus that could be used to keep time, scientists say. In a first, researchers ...

Test flights of drones fitted with equipment to identify and measure the radiation being emitted from a plume source have been conducted at the Mol site of Belgium's Nuclear Research Centre. Further ...