From soil and water, radioactive materials also moved into plants and animals, which posed risks to human health ...

Chernobyl's exclusion zone remains contaminated, its protective structure drone-struck and failing, and experts say the ...

The detection and study of isotopes, atoms of the same element that have different numbers of neutrons, could expand the ...

Among the many points of disagreement between Iran and the U.S. during the current conflict is the fate of Tehran’s highly ...

Set in Brazil in 1987, the Netflix miniseries invites viewers to compare it with public health crises in their own ...

Uranium is a naturally occurring radioactive element which has the atomic number of 92 and chemical symbol U in the periodic ...

A new analytical method could improve how cancer treatments are designed - by allowing scientists to track, for the first time, exactly where inside a living cell a drug accumulates. Researchers from ...

A breakthrough experiment has shed new light on one of astrophysics’ biggest mysteries: the origin of rare proton-rich elements. For the first time, scientists directly measured a key reaction that ...

ORNL produces and supplies actinium-225, a rare isotope essential for targeted alpha therapy and vital to advancing cancer treatment research. Targeted alpha therapy attacks tumors while sparing ...

When most people hear the word "radioactive," they tend to picture nuclear disasters like Ukraine's 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe or Japan's 2011 Fukushima meltdown. But in reality, radioactivity — the ...