Nuclear weapons can produce some of the most devastating destruction of any device ever created by humankind -- so what ...

He received a massive overdose. He was hospitalized for radiation sickness, and died 5 months later. On April 11th, 1986, a second accident occurred in Tyler, Texas. This time the patient was ...

Between 1980 and 1989, four people between two young families would die of leukemia. The connection? They all lived in the same room in an apartment building in Kramatorsk, Ukraine. Th ...

The number of early acute health effects and deaths owing to radiation accidents in medicine exceeds the number from accidents in any other peaceful use of radiation including nuclear power. A large ...

These rules are designed to limit unnecessary radiation exposures and contamination of the facilities and equipment and to minimize the consequences of a radiation accident if it should occur. Copies ...

On Mar. 28, 1979, the most significant nuclear power accident in U.S. history began after a pressure valve failed to close at ...

Evaluate any radiation accident or incident from a medical point of view. What are my main responsibilities as a medical radiation technologist in radiotherapy? As a technologist you have a key role ...

Samsung has reportedly stopped use of the machines that caused the radiation exposure since the accident. X-ray machines can be used to determine defects in chips as they're being produced with ...

Paris-based filmmaker Kenichi Watanabe completed a documentary on nuclear radiation in time for the 10th anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear plant accident in March. The film, titled “Notre ami ...

The researchers dissect the carcasses to determine if the livers, lungs, thyroid glands and muscle tissues were affected by radiation from the nuclear accident. Deformations in plant lice and fir ...