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

"Dogs at Chernobyl are now genetically distinct … thanks to years of exposure to ionizing radiation, study finds." ...

MINSK, 22 April (BelTA) – The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) considers Belarus an expert in overcoming the consequences of radiation accidents. First Deputy Head of the Nuclear and ...

Few types of accidents speak as much to the imagination as those involving nuclear fission. From the unimaginable horrors of the nuclear bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, to the fever-pitch reporting ...

(via Kyle Hill) In 1989, 1990, and 1991, there were three back-to-back fatal irradiator accidents in El Salvador, Israel, and Belarus. This [HALF-LIFE HISTORY] tells ...

Nyonoak Radiation Accident We'd like to think accidents involving nuclear missiles are a Cold War relic, but the unfortunate truth says otherwise. American officials noticed a radiation-releasing ...

The process of training and final certification of non-staff rescue teams and the site personnel has been completed at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant MELITOPOL, December 26. /TASS/. Volunteer ...

Accident dosimetry and radiation measurement techniques form a critical subset of radiation monitoring, enabling the reconstruction of absorbed doses following unplanned radiological events. These ...

Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, the effects of the world’s worst nuclear accident are still being felt.

The example that Chernobyl has provided of how the landscape, water dynamics and human behaviour affect radiation risk will be important when dealing with future disasters. Scientists never stop ...

BRASLAV, 28 November (BelTA) – The equivalent dose rate of gamma radiation has been measured in Braslav District at the Belarusian-Lithuanian border in the closest location to the Ignalina nuclear ...