Radioactive

For a final point of comparison, Smith calculates that cosmic rays interacting with the Earth’s atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean annually cause the natural deposition of 2,000 times more…

Coldwater Creek flows Friday, April 7, 2023, in Florissant, Mo. The creek was contaminated when nuclear waste from…

Customers browse Japanese imported sea products in Hong Kong, Wednesday, July 12, 2023. Hong Kong would immediately…

The United Nations nuclear chief was to visit Japan's tsunami-wrecked nuclear power plant Wednesday after the agency affirmed the safety of a contentious plan to release treated…

In some other part of the multiverse, Ezra Miller may at this very moment be zipping around the globe to promote “The Flash,” talking up the upcoming superhero movie in press junkets,…

Hickory dickory dock, this nucleus could make a great clock. A special variety of the element thorium hosts an atomic nucleus that could be used to keep time, scientists say. In…

Yoo Guk-hee, Chairperson of South Korea's Nuclear Safety and Security Committee arrives at the foreign ministry in…

Inside the mobile hot cell. Credit: Idaho National Laboratory A crowd gathers around a…

AP MONTICELLO, Minn. (AP) — Water containing a radioactive material has leaked for a second time from a nuclear plant near Minneapolis and the plant…

Credit: Shutterstock There are around 440 nuclear power plants operating in 32 countries…