From air pollution to microplastics to natural radiation, these are the environmental factors that contribute to cancer risk ...

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 ...

Congress asked the National Academies to review the civilian uses of radiation sources that contain radionuclides and the potential replacements for sources that pose a high risk to public health or ...

Tens of thousands of sealed radioactive sources consignments are shipped around the world every year for use in industry, medicine, research, agriculture and education. This week, regulators and ...

Under the draft proposal, the principle that exposure should be “as low as reasonably achievable” will be replaced with hard ...

The Soviet nuclear submarine Komsomolets, which sank in the Norwegian Sea in 1989 after a fire killed 42 crew members, ...

Think about a garden where flowers bloom beside nuclear reactors. It sounds impossible, yet it's happening right now. Since the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, scientists have watched in amazement as ...

Congress asked the National Academies to review the civilian uses of radiation sources that contain radionuclides and the potential replacements for sources that pose a high risk to public health or ...