Researchers collected soil and ash after the 2020 wildfires in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Chemical tests suggested that the fires made it easier for contaminants to wash into nearby rivers.

After nearly a decade of inactivity, Papua New Guinea’s only radiotherapy machine re-started operations six months ago with support from the IAEA, giving renewed hope to thousands of cancer patients ...

A new map has revealed that up to 25 percent of Americans live in areas where radon levels are considered unsafe by the ...

They are small lumps of waste containing uranium and radium: Embedded in asphalt, they form small but all the more intense radioactive areas. Toxic gas also escapes at break points. It was a ...

Three women who own properties in Elliot Lake, ON are disappointed and shocked after a federal judge rejected their appeal to order the removal of radioactive ... gas and radiation that far ...

Ultraviolet (UV) radiation is a type of light. Sunlight has UV rays, along with other kinds of rays. Some light bulbs give off UV rays, too. UV light bulbs are used in tanning beds and lamps, some ...

Modern linear accelerators have multileaf collimators to automatically create individualized treatment fields for conformal radiotherapy and IMRT. Another feature of modern accelerators is the in ...