Radioactive sources contain radioactive material of a particular radionuclide (an unstable form of an element emitting radiation), which can vary based on the application for which the source was ...

Some of the most toxic nuclear waste in the world is stored in dozens of huge tanks first installed in the 1950s at the Savannah River Site atomic weapons complex near Aiken. Radioactive wasp nests ...

Researchers from HSE University and the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences analyzed seven years of ...

(NewsNation) — A radioactive wasp nest located in South Carolina at a site where nuclear bomb parts were once made has radiation levels 10 times higher than those allowed by federal regulations, a ...

MINSK, 4 November (BelTA) – Svetlana Shestovskaya, a department head with the Nuclear and Radiation Safety Department of the Belarusian Emergencies Ministry (Gosatomnadzor), spoke at length about what ...

WILLISTON, N.D. - An oilfield landfill south of Williston is the first facility in North Dakota to propose accepting radioactive waste under new state rules.IHD Solids Management LLC has submitted ...

Potassium iodide (KI) is a type of iodine a person may receive during a radiation emergency. It works by preventing the thyroid from absorbing a type of radioactive material. KI is a type of medical ...