In 2017, Odesson Alves Ferreira, a survivor of the 1987 Goiânia nuclear disaster in central Brazil, received the Lifetime ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The new BetaVolt battery beside a small coin. The battery is smaller in size in comparison. Chinese scientists have built a ...

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) - The Texas A&M Engineering Extension, also known as TEEX, demonstrated how to identify and locate a radiation source in the middle of a disaster on Friday. 18 students ...

The purpose of this Sandia National Laboratories' sponsored study is to support existing and future activities under the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Office of Radiological Security ...

Everything on the electromagnetic spectrum has some properties of both waves and particles, but it’s difficult to imagine a ...

People often think of radiation as the basis for carbon-free nuclear power. But radiation can also save lives. That’s especially true in hospitals where professionals use nuclear medicine to make ...

Radioactive sources are used in the oil and gas industry to characterize wells providing critical data to exploit geological formations in pursuit of oil caches. These mobile radioactive sources are ...

Cosmic space is filled with continuous, diffuse high-energy radiation. To find out how this energy is produced, the scientists behind ESA’s Integral gamma-ray observatory have tried an unusual method: ...

Think about a garden where flowers bloom beside nuclear reactors. It sounds impossible, yet it's happening right now. Since the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, scientists have watched in amazement as ...