San Francisco officials are demanding answers after learning dangerous levels of plutonium-239 were detected at the Hunters ...

President Donald Trump announced he is ordering the U.S. to resume nuclear testing, leaving experts wondering what this would entail and how it would be implemented.

Hit by a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and an ensuing tsunami on March 11, 2011, the Fukushima nuclear plant suffered core ...

The IAEA safety standards cover all nuclear and radiation applications utilized for peaceful purposes, and provide guidance and requirements for the medical uses of radiation, the operation of nuclear ...

The Trump administration is considering tighter safety rules on the weak radiations of cellphones even as it pursues looser ...

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have identified the source and the factors affecting the radioactive cesium (137Cs) flow ...

FDA estimates that the radiation exposure came from a local steel recycling plant, but there could be other factors at play ...

On 1 February 2017, Japan provided the IAEA with a copy of a report on the discharge record and the seawater monitoring results at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station during January, which the ...

Understanding what happens when radiation interacts with biological matter is crucial in medical physics (Courtesy: iStock/Dr Microbe) Studying the chain of processes that take place when UV or x-ray ...

Russia has launched the Bion-M No. 2 biological research mission to test radiation effects on living species when in polar orbit, where Russia plans to deploy its next crewed space station. Russian ...

The start of full-scale removal of melted fuel debris at the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan will be delayed for several years, the latest setback announced by the plant ...