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

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 ...

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

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 ...

The Los Alamos National Laboratory Historical Society is releasing new photos that John “Mike” Michnovicz took during the ...

Radiation monitoring is an important undertaking ... IRSN helped develop crucial atmospheric dispersion models for use in nuclear accidents. Pictured is the spread of the radioactive plume ...

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 ...