Many of the Japanese workers who fled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in March and who are putting their lives at risk to contain radiation there today are low-paid contract workers, The New ...

The DNA of Chernobyl cleanup workers and others exposed to high doses of radiation showed mutations that were also evident in ...

Get an x-ray, and you get a small dose of radiation to visualize your bones and body structures to help you medically. Buy a smoke detector, you’re inviting a tiny source of radiation, americium-241, ...

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 ...

An investigation by Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at Arizona State University and Scripps News reveals how the ...

Airport X-ray machines are exempt from the state radiation control inspections they would receive if installed at a local courthouse or in a non-federal office building. The U.S. Food and Drug ...

An IAEA team assessing Kenya’s radiation protection processes has found that the country’s shift to digital radiation monitoring is optimizing worker protection. The team also recommended that Kenya ...

They risk explosions, fire and an invisible enemy -- radiation that could kill quickly or decades later -- as they race to avert disaster inside a dark, overheated nuclear plant. The 180 emergency ...

A recent leak at the nation’s underground nuclear waste dump in New Mexico has caused 13 workers to test positive for radiation. The workers were working aboveground the night of the leak, and it is ...

Sri Lanka is committed to enhancing its national programme to strengthen the radiation protection of workers, according to a recent IAEA review mission. The team of experts found that dose monitoring ...

Mandatory annual training for personnel who access radiation posted areas (non-radiation workers). Radioactive material and x-ray machines are safely used in a wide variety of research programs at the ...

The damaged Unit 1 reactor, back, and the exhaust stack shared by the Unit 1 and 2 reactors are seen at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, operated by Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings ...