MINSK, 22 April (BelTA) – The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) considers Belarus an expert in overcoming the consequences of radiation accidents. First Deputy Head of the Nuclear and ...

(via Kyle Hill) 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.

Few types of accidents speak as much to the imagination as those involving nuclear fission. From the unimaginable horrors of the nuclear bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, to the fever-pitch reporting ...

The process of training and final certification of non-staff rescue teams and the site personnel has been completed at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant MELITOPOL, December 26. /TASS/. Volunteer ...

Nyonoak Radiation Accident We'd like to think accidents involving nuclear missiles are a Cold War relic, but the unfortunate truth says otherwise. American officials noticed a radiation-releasing ...

(via Kyle Hill) In 1989, 1990, and 1991, there were three back-to-back fatal irradiator accidents in El Salvador, Israel, and Belarus. This [HALF-LIFE HISTORY] tells ...

Accident dosimetry and radiation measurement techniques form a critical subset of radiation monitoring, enabling the reconstruction of absorbed doses following unplanned radiological events. These ...

There have been three major accidents at commercial nuclear reactors – Three Mile Island (1979), Chernobyl (1986), and Fukushima (2011). Let’s take a look at each of these accidents to see what ...

When nuclear accidents happen, many people imagine radiation spreading everywhere and lasting forever. The reality is more complex. Radioactive materials move, change and sometimes disappear faster ...

The Cold War's nuclear brinksmanship involved a strategy that demanded the United States and the U.S.S.R. be constantly prepared to launch nuclear weapons. The necessity for regular patrols of nuclear ...