Rethinking nuclear radiation and its dangers is critical if the world is to turn away from hydrocarbon sources of energy. Many of us are seeing unwelcome spikes in our electric bills. This is due in a ...

Radiation exposure, whether from natural sources, medical applications, nuclear events, or space environments, presents complex challenges that span ...

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Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, the effects of the world’s worst nuclear accident are still being felt.

It's 40 years since the Chernobyl disaster. This is what it has meant for wildlife living around the devastated nuclear power ...

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Sherrie Hanna is looking for justice, and the clock is ticking. The problem she's taking on is a big one - so large, in fact, that there's no definitive answer on the number of people impacted.

Uncle Sam conducted several pointless and destructive experiments on his own people during the Cold War. The most infamous was MKUltra, the CIA's project to develop procedures for mind control using ...

The world's worst nuclear disaster began 40 years ago at 1:23 a.m. on April 26, 1986, when Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear ...