Nuclear weapons can produce some of the most devastating destruction of any device ever created by humankind -- so what happens when someone makes a mistake?

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 ...

People living near a US airbase earmarked to house nuclear weapons say they are being left in the dark about what would ...

The connection? They all lived in the same room in an apartment building in Kramatorsk, Ukraine. This episode of [HALF-LIFE HISTORIES] explains how a single misplaced capsule became one of history’s ...

Radiation monitoring is an important undertaking ... IRSN helped develop crucial atmospheric dispersion models for use in nuclear accidents. Pictured is the spread of the radioactive plume ...

The radiological accident described in this report took place in Lilo, Georgia, when sealed radiation sources were abandoned by a previous owner at a site without following established regulatory ...

The Government and authorities in Brazil were faced with a tragic accident in Goiânia resulting from the misuse of a strongly radioactive medical teletherapy source not under radiation protection ...

Belarus’ program on overcoming the impact of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident focuses on social security and ...