Mutant sharks. White sand laced with plutonium. Water tainted with strontium. Hub cap-sized hermit crabs eating coconuts ...

Positively charged particles and free electrons are left behind after the collisions. Devices that are used to detect radioactivity are based on the ionizing ability of radiation. One such device is ...

Holtec's plan to discharge nearly a million gallons of radioactive wastewater into Cape Cod Bay has become a contentious ...

The operator of Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant will resume an operation to remove a sample of highly radioactive ...

The physicist-chemists Marie and Pierre Curie considered these their hard-won “fairy lights,” which, the two believed, held the secrets of radioactivity. “By the Curies’ count,” Dava ...

Thunderstorms increased radiation at a mountaintop measuring site far in excess of background levels from cosmic rays. Observations included electrons moving close enough to the speed of light ...

A recent study suggests that without certain unmelted asteroids, Earth may not have had enough critical compounds for life to ...

L&T will help ITER develop and assemble cutting-edge technology for the reactor's vacuum vessel, crucial for controlling ...

Radiation Basics Made Simple is a training module that introduces participants to the fundamentals of radiation and ...

The IAEA's Marine Radioactivity Information System (MARIS) allows free access to users to search and download the results of measurements of radioactivity in seawater, biota, sediment and suspended ...

All types of radiation become less intense as they travel further away from the radioactive material. This is because the particles or rays become more spread out. The thicker the substance, the ...

A shear zone with locally reactivated graphitic-pyritic faults was intersected approximately 80 metres below the unconformity ...