Work is being done now to empty radioactive waste from the 25th of 149 leak-prone underground tanks at the Hanford nuclear ...

Indiana will take over regulation of 213 radioactive materials licenses form the U.S. Unclear Regulatory Commission as the ...

Columbia, South Carolina (AP) — Workers at a site in South Carolina that once made key parts for nuclear bombs in the United States have found a radioactive wasp nest but officials said there is no ...

After the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, scientists explored an unusual way of dealing with radioactive contamination by ...

A nuclear engineer explains Chernobyl’s most radioactive object, exploring its history, radiation, and the science behind the ...

Long after the events of Chernobyl and Fukushima, their impacts are still being felt. The animals near major nuclear events and nuclear testing sites, like Enewetak Atoll, were discovered to have ...

After successfully containing a radioactive leak, NB Power has put Atlantic Canada's only nuclear station back in service.

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 ...

Workers in Japan started releasing treated radioactive water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday. In 2011, an earthquake and tsunami hit the Fukushima ...

During a nuclear stress test, you’ll be injected with a radioactive dye called a tracer. Some of this tracer will remain in your system for a time after the test. A nuclear stress test is a type of ...

In this lesson, students will investigate the nature of radioactivity and the effect of both distance and shielding materials on different radioactive sources using a Geiger-Muller tube with a counter ...