Radiation can wreak havoc on the human body when it's exposed to high doses or for prolonged periods of time. The world understood this in horrifying detail after the Chernobyl and Fukushima Daiichi ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Scott L. Montgomery is a geologist who writes about energy issues. Fear of radiation is a staple of the post-WWII era. Assumptions ...

I've been lurking and dipping in and out of this thread, and have a scattered assortment of thoughts and somewhat-relevant expertise that I've finally decided to express in words. My bona fides: I've ...

An illustration titled 'What Radioactivity Is', with six panels' reading (top) 'Water in pond is 'stable,' it expends no energy,' water can be carried up-hill and its energy level raised,' 'as it runs ...

The Philippines is confronting a new kind of security worry offshore, after scientists detected traces of nuclear material 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, ...

Organic molecules detected in the watery plumes that spew out from cracks in the surface of Enceladus could be formed through exposure to radiation on Saturn's icy moon, rather than originating from ...

Hisashi Ouchi, 35, endured unimaginable suffering after a 1999 criticality accident at the Tokaimura uranium plant in Japan ...

In 2025, IAEA website audiences were drawn in large numbers to our visual science explainers and features on the safe and secure uses of nuclear energy, nuclear science and technology. 1.

Instead, high-energy radiation and electromagnetic pulses dominate, posing serious risks to satellites, spacecraft, and ...