Radioactive nuclear fallout can contaminate the food chain poisoning any produce it touches and the animals that eat it.cyano66 / Getty Images Fallout — radioactive material from a nuclear explosion — ...

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

There might be an unexpected ingredient in your glass of California red wine. If your bottle of choice was made after 2011, it could have small amounts of radioactive particles from a major nuclear ...

Nuclear bombs are universally feared for their catastrophic power and the long-lasting consequences they can inflict. At ground zero, buildings can be obliterated, causing massive loss of life, while ...

The 10 year anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident occurs in March. Work just published in the Journal 'Science of the Total Environment' documents new, large (> 300 micrometers), ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A year-long air monitoring project in Commerce City found there are more harmful pollutants in the air than people realize, and advocates say federal and ...

Almost ten years after the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, researchers discovered a new kind of highly radioactive mineral particle in the fallout. The plant suffered major ...

Household gadgets have a way of sounding scarier than they are once someone attaches a giant number to them. The claim that a toaster quietly sheds 1.73 trillion particles every minute, even when it ...

Specks of radioactive contamination have been found on eight cars or other vehicles that were parked at the Hanford nuclear reservation’s Plutonium Finishing Plant. Two of the vehicles may have been ...

Iodine-131 is a dangerous radioactive isotope. It can clog up your thyroid gland and contaminate food. It’s been a big problem in Japan (for obvious reasons), but now it’s been scarily detected ...

Residents in Pennsylvania are calling out a local waste management facility after radioactive particles were found in their drinking water, but their fight may just be beginning. In 2013, after his ...