The rise of a new generation of radiotherapies means we will soon need much greater quantities of radioactive atoms. That's ...

When nuclear accidents happen, many people imagine radiation spreading everywhere and lasting forever. The reality is more ...

LONDON/WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s plan to unleash a wave of small futuristic nuclear reactors to power the AI era is falling back on an age-old strategy to dispose of the highly toxic ...

Uranium was discovered in 1789 by Martin Klaproth, a German chemist. It is a radioactive element found naturally in the environment in very small amounts — scientists call these trace amounts — in ...

Unlike burning fossil fuels, nuclear power plants release very few greenhouse gases. They’re safer than they’ve ever been, and currently generate around a fifth of the U.S.’s electricity. However, ...

A Washington state-based fusion energy startup is helping to make that dream a reality for DARPA, which wants higher-power ...

Darleane C. Hoffman, a trailblazing nuclear chemist who was hailed by Discover magazine as one of the 50 most important women in science and whose research confirmed the existence of several elusive ...

The federal state-owned Gesellschaft für Zwischenlagerung (BGZ) and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) will in the ...

Nuclear Radioactivity - alpha, beta, gamma decay, photoelectric effect, photosynthesis, Planck constant, absorption, emission, mass defect, strong nuclear force, repulsive force, fusion, fission, ...

Even with the ongoing leaks, researchers found, "There is little evidence of any accumulation" A Cold War submarine that sank in 1989 is still leaking radioactive material into the water off of Norway ...

The buzz about radioactive wasps at a Cold War-era nuclear site in South Carolina just won’t die. Investigators found “hot” nests inside a nuclear weapons facility in South Carolina, with scientists ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Workers at a site in South Carolina that once made key parts for nuclear bombs in the U.S. have found a radioactive wasp nest but officials said there is no danger to anyone.