A mysterious cloud containing radioactive ruthenium-106, which moved across Europe in 2017, is still bothering Europe's radiation protection entities. German researchers now found out that the cloud ...

The Chernobyl nuclear plant has suffered a power failure that could result in the release of a radioactive cloud that could stretch to other parts of Europe, the State Service of Special ...

The solar system is currently embedded deep within the Local Bubble, a region of relatively low density stretching for a thousand light-years across. It was carved millions of years ago by a chain of ...

FAIRFIELD TOWNSHIP, Ohio — Creating the deadliest bomb in the world and having humans fly through the radioactive cloud and debris moments after the detonation was the focus of a 1956 experiment ...

Dirty bombs have long been feared as a potential weapon of terrorists because their main objective is to sow panic, confusion and anxiety by hurling radioactive dust and smoke into the atmosphere. The ...

In 1974, a radioactive cloud from a French nuclear test drifted over Teahupo’o, Tahiti, now the surfing venue for the Paris Games. Villagers still feel the effects. The Great Read In 1974, a ...

FILE - An instrument for detecting radiation is seen on a map of the New York area during an exercise to intercept radioactive "dirty bombs" in waterways near New York, Thursday, April 7, 2011. Dirty ...

A radioactive plume of water in the Pacific Ocean from Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant, which was crippled in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, will likely reach U.S. coastal waters starting in 2014, ...

(CBS 8) - As computer models suggest the radioactive plume from the damaged Japanese plant could reach Southern California as early as Friday, health officials in the U.S. are doing their best to put ...

Most people trace the dawn of the nuclear era to August 6, 1945, and the dropping of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima. In reality, it began three weeks earlier, in the desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico ...