OKUMA, Japan (AP) — The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant's radiation levels have significantly dropped since the cataclysmic meltdown in Japan 14 years ago. Workers walk around in many areas ...

Rebecca Smith-Bindman, a professor at the University of California-San Francisco medical school, has spent well over a decade researching the disquieting risk that one of modern medicine’s most ...

CHILDREN of the Chernobyl “liquidators” who risked it all to clean up the toxic mess are now suffering the consequences, researchers revealed. Almost 40 years since the ...

A Howard Center investigation found that despite knowing for decades about elevated cancer risks for flight crews, the agency does not require radiation monitoring, annual exposure limits, route adjus ...

Mars is not just a colder, dustier version of Earth. It is a planet soaked in high‑energy particles that batter rock, metal, ...

WASHINGTON, Sept 30 (Reuters) - The White House on Tuesday announced it has restored an advisory board that plays a key role in approving medical claims by nuclear weapons workers who have had high ...

A small percentage of coronary interventions contribute disproportionately to the cumulative radiation exposure of operators and other cath lab staff, new data suggest. Those excessive ...

Silicon (Si)-based devices are widely used in electrical and electronic applications; however, prolonged exposure to high radiation ...

Nuclear power plants are exposed to high-energy radiation, which degrades materials over time. Particles and rays interact with critical components, particularly in the reactor core, leading to ...

Employees of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO) take AP journalists to the area under the Unit 5 reactor pressure vessel, which survived the earthquake-triggered tsunami in 2011, at the ...