Knowing that you're living with radiation sources might make you feel like there are scary dangers lurking around your home. But radioactive materials are actually found everywhere — in the earth, our ...
Think about a garden where flowers bloom beside nuclear reactors. It sounds impossible, yet it's happening right now. Since the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, scientists have watched in amazement as ...
Authorities in Aruba, Bonaire, Saba, Sint Maarten and Sint Eustatius have received IAEA support to develop a comprehensive inventory of ionizing radiation sources used in medicine and industry under a ...
A recent local incident involved a radioactive americium source (Am-241) found in Santa Fe and transferred to Los Alamos National Laboratory. This cost $6 million (paid by the owner) and involved 40 ...