Knowing that you're living with radiation sources might make you feel like there are scary dangers lurking around your home. But radioactive materials are actually found everywhere — in the earth, our ...

Radioactive sources contain radioactive material of a particular radionuclide (an unstable form of an element emitting radiation), which can vary based on the application for which the source was ...

Tens of thousands of sealed radioactive sources consignments are shipped around the world every year for use in industry, medicine, research, agriculture and education. This week, regulators and ...

Electricity is a regular part of life these days. Most people who grew up in the U.S. don’t know what it’s like to live without a readily available energy source in their home. Our homes are filled ...

Congress asked the National Academies to review the civilian uses of radiation sources that contain radionuclides and the potential replacements for sources that pose a high risk to public health or ...

A thousand light years away, a pulsar called Vela flashes Earth with bright bursts of energy 11 times every second: radio waves, visible light, x-rays, and gamma rays. Astrophysicist Arache ...

Scientists investigating the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan have found an unexpected source of radioactive material at the site. They found that sands and brackish groundwater up to 97 ...

The amount of radiation emitted from the human body is extremely low and not dangerous, according to experts. Even with many people standing together in an isolated space, our bodies would act as ...

A warning sign is pictured in the assembly hall of the Linac 4 (Linear Accelerator 4) at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Meyrin near Geneva October 16, 2008. The current ...