When most people think about radioactivity, their minds jump to nuclear power plants, medical X-rays, or maybe that ominous ...

Capsules containing 30% of the radioactivity at the Hanford nuclear site are stored in a decaying underwater pool.

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For now at least, fears about an unstoppable disaster at the Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant have calmed a bit. But the crisis has clearly entered a second phase — tainted food and water. Over the ...

Northern Water has reached a point where it believes the issue of uranium radioactivity at its new 90,000 acre-foot Chimney ...

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 ...

Groundwater at 11 Duke Energy plants, including in the Charlotte area, contains “startlingly” high levels of radioactivity, according to a report this month by an environmental group. The Catawba ...

For decades, a massive Cold War-era plant created weapons next to the small northwest Ohio village of Luckey. Residents of the rural community have long wondered how the former toxic plant might still ...

Particle radioactivity, a characteristic of air pollution that reflects the colorless, odorless gas radon found in fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) air pollution, increased the risk of death from ...

AN interesting observation promises to open other avenues of approach in the methods for investigating the formation of urinary-tract calculi. A patient who proved to have a vesical calculus as well ...

The recall comes after one lot of the shrimp was determined to have low levels of Cs-137, a radioactive isotope Getty Shrimp sold at Walmart is being recalled for possible radioactivity The recall ...