I am the product of an extremely nuclear family -- my dad worked for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, so we spent many a family vacation touring power plants. As if that wasn't enough to give me ...

An undated photo from the 1980s, of two teenagers stepping on rocks and wooden planks on Coldwater Creek. The photo is from a scrapbook kept by Sandy Delcoure, who lived on Willow Creek in Florissant ...

LITTLE ROCK -- At issue are glow-in-the-dark signs that contain tritium, a hydrogen isotope with a radioactive strength similar to that of material in many smoke alarms. The Nuclear Regulatory ...

Scientists say the areas around fracking sites have up to 40 percent more airborne radioactive particles. As an unorthodox way to extract materials, fracking has presented research challenges.

WASHINGTON (CN) - Tritium "EXIT" signs, which have tubes that glow in the dark for up to twenty years without electricity or batteries, are radioactive and should not go in the regular trash when ...

Radiation is energy that moves from one place to another in a form that can be described as waves or particles. We are exposed to radiation in our everyday life. Some of the most familiar sources of ...

A radioactive contamination scandal in Banten, Indonesia, has left local workers like Sakinah and Roni jobless and exposed to health risks after Cesium-137 was traced to factories in the Modern ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The Navy waited 11 months to alert locals that airborne plutonium at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard had exceeded ...

Sarah Loughran receives funding from The National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (NHMRC). She is the Director of Radiation Research and Advice at the Australian Radiation Protection ...

The impact of nuclear disasters throughout history can still be seen in the environment today. Animals in areas near nuclear disasters are being found with radiation still in their bodies. Nuclear ...

JAKARTA, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Indonesia's nuclear agency is still determining the size of the area affected by radioactive contamination linked to a scrap metal plant, with 10 points in an industrial ...