Get an x-ray, and you get a small dose of radiation to visualize your bones and body structures to help you medically. Buy a smoke detector, you’re inviting a tiny source of radiation, americium-241, ...

If the U.S. does drop a powerful "bunker buster" bomb on a suspected underground nuclear weapons site in Iran, experts in radiation hazards say there is little risk of widespread contamination. As we ...

Not long ago, I met a woman from Belarus. She told me about the terrible aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident in April 1986. As a child, she’d had to evacuate her home, which was contaminated ...

One expert says explosive nuclear testing would be 'alarming.' President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he is ordering the United States to resume nuclear testing, leaving experts wondering ...

At the core of the report’s assessment is the long-term biological impact of ionising radiation, the potential of radiation ...

President Donald Trump has ordered an overhaul of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, part of his push to quadruple nuclear power in the U.S. by 2050. The order requires the NRC to make decisions on ...

A General Electric generator produces electricity from the nuclear-powered steam-driven turbine at the NextEra Energy Duane Arnold Energy Center in Palo, Iowa, on Monday, April 8, 2019. (Jim Slosiarek ...