What’s going on with this silent threat that can stealthily damage your body in ways that can take years to reveal themselves ...

A research team at the University of Bristol has developed a way to use a type of nuclear waste to generate electricity in a nuclear-powered battery that is an actual diamond. Such a battery produces ...

The 43,000 tons of radioactive waste and soil came from a top-secret initiative: The Manhattan Project, which built the atomic bombs America dropped on Japan in 1945. In 1973, that waste ended up in ...

“Regardless of whether you are for or against nuclear power, and no matter what you think of nuclear weapons, the radioactive waste is already here, and we have to deal with it.” That’s Gerald S.

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The U.S. Department of Energy has announced it discovered a radioactive wasps' nest, with radiation levels more than 10 times those laid out in federal regulations, at a facility in South Carolina.

Martin Boland has received funding from the Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering. He has collaborated with the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation. On the weekend ...

A miracle cream was launched in Paris in 1933. Billed as a “scientific beauty product,” it promised to improve circulation, firm muscle tissue, reduce fat and smooth wrinkles. It was part of a line of ...

Five thousand miles west of Los Angeles and 500 miles north of the equator, on a far-flung spit of white coral sand in the central Pacific, a massive, aging and weathered concrete dome bobs up and ...