When will the exclusion zone be completely free of all radionuclides? On the 40th anniversary of the Chornobyl disaster, the ...

The crew at the nuclear power plant wanted to test the reactor's behavior during a power failure, triggering the most serious ...

Among the many points of disagreement between Iran and the U.S. during the current conflict is the fate of Tehran’s highly ...

The detection and study of isotopes, atoms of the same element that have different numbers of neutrons, could expand the ...

Expert Nikolay Kovalev added that by 2056, plutonium-241 will account only for 3.3% of the amount released into the environment, and its prevalence will decrease ...

The rise of a new generation of radiotherapies means we will soon need much greater quantities of radioactive atoms. That's ...

Radiation risk can be measured, understood and controlled in ways that keep people safe, including from contaminated foods.

Researchers in the United States have proposed a completely new kind of laser—one that ...

Uranium is a naturally occurring radioactive element which has the atomic number of 92 and chemical symbol U in the periodic ...

A breakthrough experiment has shed new light on one of astrophysics’ biggest mysteries: the origin of rare proton-rich elements. For the first time, scientists directly measured a key reaction that ...

Scientists have reported a major experimental advance in understanding how some of the rarest elements in the universe are formed. These unusual ...

Abstract: When conducting nuclear medical procedures like brachytherapy or performing repairs at industrial nuclear facilities, the energy of an alpha or beta particle released from a nucleus is ...