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 ...

Talk about a powerhouse food. Like anything within its radius, food can also be susceptible to the effects of nuclear contamination, even decades after an event. But one food may actually protect ...

Recent release of the waste water from Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster stirred apprehension regarding the health implications of radiation exposure. Classified as a Group 1 carcinogen, ionizing ...

The latest weather forecast reports that the winds over the nuclear power plant in Japan have switched directions, and instead of blowing radioactive particles out to sea, the nuclear plume is ...

Under the draft proposal, the principle that exposure should be “as low as reasonably achievable” will be replaced with hard ...

Floy Agnes Lee, known as Aggie,was a hematology technician at Los Alamos, N.M., in 1945. Recruited to the Manhattan Project straight out of college, she collected blood samples from many Manhattan ...