If you’ve got frozen shrimp in your freezer, it’s time for a careful check. In the latest development of an ongoing food ...

DOE was required by the legally binding Tri-Party Agreement to decide by Dec. 31 where to grout some of its low-activity ...

We think of radioactive material as something buried away in bunkers with bombs, power plants, and maybe some exotic medical equipment. But turns out, there are little bits of radiation in the water, ...

Sarah Loughran receives funding from The National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (NHMRC). She is the Director of Radiation Research and Advice at the Australian Radiation Protection ...

The case reinforces the need for stronger standards. Officials alarmed after discovery of 400 radioactive barrels in ...

Fallout — radioactive material from a nuclear explosion — exists in every corner of the world. Nuclear fallout from a bomb is less dangerous long-term than from a nuclear power plant disaster. Fallout ...

A tiny radioactive capsule, smaller than a 10-cent coin and lost on a stretch of highway in outback Western Australia, has miraculously been found. The caesium-137 capsule, measuring just 8 ...

The Ministry of Justice has spent £100m of taxpayers’ money keeping open a “radioactive” prison it cannot use, an investigation by MPs has found.

In science fiction movies, things that are radioactive almost always cause trouble. But in real life, doctors can use some of them to help people. Radioactive iodine is a good example. Doctors use a ...

Tensions are rising in Japan over radioactive water leaking into the Pacific Ocean from Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, a breach that has defied the plant operator's effort to gain ...