The blast is what people imagine. A sudden flash, a rising cloud, the moment when history splits into “before” and “after”.

The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC) defines it as the process of radiation attenuation achieved by placing an absorbent substance between an individual, a workspace, or a radiation ...

Radiation from used nuclear fuel could be used to create a valuable fuel additive needed for renewable biodiesel, scientists in Slovenia and the UK have shown. The research highlights that there are ...

What do granite and bananas have in common? Radioactivity. As it turns out, radioactivity is all around us and has been for eons. About 25 years ago, I was doing radiation surveys at a NASA research ...

The element radium can be found in extremely tiny amounts in the Earth’s crust and oceans, and in its pure form it is a soft silvery metal. To an untrained eye, a small piece of radium may look like a ...

The import and export of sealed radioactive sources is part of the modern global trade. Radioactive sources are imported and exported daily from country to country or across continents, to meet the ...

This course introduces radioactive waste disposal principles and practices, including historical perspective and the role of economy and safety, also describes the licensing process for radioactive ...