Chernobyl's Elephant's Foot still sits inside the damaged reactor as a highly radioactive corium mass. Its weakening but ...

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

A huge armada of vehicles were used to clean-up the radioactive aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster 40 years ago. Many of ...

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

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 ...

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

Hair oil spiked with radioactive elements seems like an obviously bad idea to us now. But in the decades right after ...

With NASA’s Artemis II—the first crewed lunar flyby in more than 50 years—successfully completed, attention is now turning to what’s ...

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

There are only 14 helium refineries worldwide, and helium supply was already rapidly shrinking before the current ...

Nucleus plans to expand capabilities at Rochester facility and finish construction of new site near Philadelphia.

The homemade nuclear battery produced up to 2.9 volts overnight, showing how weak tritium light can still charge a capacitor.