Although Chernobyl is the most well known, there are a host of other radioactive places in the world in countries including ...

A drone armed with a warhead hit the outer protective shell of Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear plant. Friday's strike damaged the shell and briefly started a fire.

The Semipalatinsk Test Site, also called the Polygon, is lesser known but was used by the Soviet Union to test nuclear ...

During the 1950s and 1960s, I remember the government-conducted Civil Defense drills in my school. We were told to climb under our school desks, duck down and cover our heads. We might have survived a ...

During the 1950s and 1960s, I remember the government-conducted Civil Defense drills in my school. We were told to climb under our school desks, duck down and cover our heads. We might have survived a ...

Radiotherapy, or radiation therapy, is the clinical use of high energy rays (ionizing radiation) to induce DNA damage in all exposed cells to ultimately kill cancer cells or prevent cancer growth.

What are the best Fallout New Vegas mods? Despite being over a decade old, Fallout New Vegas enjoys a thriving modding scene that has stood the test of time. In the 12 or so years since we first ...

Again, all 177 passengers survived the emergency landing, but the fallout from the event has ... a total of 318 people died in aircraft accidents last year, making 2024 the deadliest year in ...

"If we don't implement policies to mitigate this risk, we will continue to see a widening of the insurance protection gap," Pearce said, suggesting that government policies should steer people away ...

groups of citizens are embracing science to monitor radioactive fallout — and regain control of lives upended by the 2011 meltdowns in Fukushima. Radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster in ...

FUKUSHIMA--Typhoons that battered Japan in October reduced radiation levels of some parts of Fukushima Prefecture significantly, but might have created radiation hot spots, according to the ...

A bipartisan group of senators also introduced a bill in Congress to reauthorize the Radiation Exposure Compensation ... Lawmakers included funding for disaster relief in the current budget ...