A Feb. 10 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) features a picture of a woman holding a small vial. "Humans Are Radioactive," reads the text within the post. "If 100 million avg humans kept in an ...

Are you a frequent flier or someone with a job that takes you on several transcontinental flights a year? You may want to pass on the airport body scanner. Because beyond civil liberties and privacy, ...

The U.K. Health Protection Agency estimates the typical Briton receives about 2,200 microsieverts of radiation per year from background radiation, or about 0.251 microsieverts per hour — more than ...

It's possible that Japan's nuclear crisis might be as bad as Chernobyl was. The radiation released in the Chernobyl accident was equivalent to several hundred Hiroshima bombs. Just reading about the ...

Radiation exposure is sadly all too familiar to the people of Japan. The health effects of radiation were poorly understood until the United States dropped atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and ...

Nearly 15 years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, air radiation doses have dropped significantly in Fukushima Prefecture, ...

The blast killed five atomic scientists during test of a missile engine that used “isotope power sources” on an offshore platform in Arkhangelsk region, close to Arctic Circle, state nuclear monopoly ...