Nuclear weapons can produce some of the most devastating destruction of any device ever created by humankind -- so what happens when someone makes a mistake?

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 ...

On Mar. 28, 1979, the most significant nuclear power accident in U.S. history began after a pressure valve failed to close at ...

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 ...

At its worst, some experts say, a dirty bomb attack might be comparable to a radiation accident, perhaps like the one in Brazil in 1987, when more than 200 people were exposed—4 fatally—to ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The researchers dissect the carcasses to determine if the livers, lungs, thyroid glands and muscle tissues were affected by radiation from the nuclear accident. Deformations in plant lice and fir ...