The widespread cesium-137 contamination that spread far beyond an industrial area in Indonesia has led to radioactive ...

Thai officials said Monday they have traced to a recycling foundry a metal cylinder with radioactive contents that was discovered earlier this month missing from a power plant, but advised that there ...

What many people assumed was a relatively safe job has raised glaring concerns in the last year as rising evidence suggests that many oil and gas workers are being exposed to radioactive ...

Scientists from the University of New Hampshire and colleagues have published comprehensive findings on space-based radiation as measured by a UNH-led detector aboard NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance ...

A survey conducted by the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) highlights ongoing radiation and orthopedic hazards faced by interventional cardiologists and cardiac ...

There are many factors to consider when saying “radioactivity is hazardous.” Here is an attempt to summarize them in five points. Radiation is not an age-old reality; in fact, the discovery of ...

The standard should be, if Cesium-137 or other isotopes of concern are detectable in food items, they ought to be pulled off shelves, or at the very least labeled with warnings so consumers can make ...

Palm Beach County Fire Rescue contained a radiological hazard caused by a collision involving a nuclear density gauge.

A radioactive “dirty bomb” would be less devastating than a nuclear device but easier to create. Such a bomb would use conventional explosives to spread radioactive material over a small area — and ...

Data returned by the ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter indicates that astronauts on even short future Mars missions could face significant space radiation hazards. The readings from the orbiter ...

Dräger, an international leader in the fields of medical and safety technology, announced the release of the Dräger X-site Live, a state-of-the-art area monitoring kit for gas and radiation hazard ...

Scientists have unlocked one of the mysteries of how particles from flares on the sun accumulate at early stages in the energization of hazardous radiation that is harmful to astronauts, satellites ...