Nuclear weapons can produce some of the most devastating destruction of any device ever created by humankind -- so what ...

Between 1980 and 1989, four people between two young families would die of leukemia. The connection? They all lived in the same room in an apartment building in Kramatorsk, Ukraine. Th ...

He received a massive overdose. He was hospitalized for radiation sickness, and died 5 months later. On April 11th, 1986, a second accident occurred in Tyler, Texas. This time the patient was ...

Wizened veterans of Central Pennsylvania’s “No Nukes” movement used the 46th anniversary of the partial meltdown at Three ...

Samsung has reportedly stopped use of the machines that caused the radiation exposure since the accident. X-ray machines can be used to determine defects in chips as they're being produced with ...

These rules are designed to limit unnecessary radiation exposures and contamination of the facilities and equipment and to minimize the consequences of a radiation accident if it should occur. Copies ...

Since then, about 50 people have died from radiation sickness. That includes 28 workers and firefighters who were killed at the 1986 nuclear accident at Chernobyl in what is now Ukraine.

The number of early acute health effects and deaths owing to radiation accidents in medicine exceeds the number from accidents in any other peaceful use of radiation including nuclear power. A large ...

Evaluate any radiation accident or incident from a medical point of view. What are my main responsibilities as a medical radiation technologist in radiotherapy? As a technologist you have a key role ...