ALBANY — In a lab more than two stories underground, a UAlbany professor has taken the first steps toward what he says is a safer form of nuclear energy: One that doesn’t ever explode, melt down or ...

In the ruins of Chernobyl’s shattered reactors, something unexpected has taken root. Thick black mats of mold are thriving ...

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 ...

A collaboration between Idaho National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory is accelerating the inspection of 3D-printed nuclear components and nuclear fuels. ORNL developed a software ...

Adushkin, Vitaly V, and Alexander Spivak. 2015. Underground Explosions. Washington, DC. https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA627744.pdf Allen, R. T., and R. E. Duff ...

On a recent Wednesday, ten students filed into a classroom at Northern New Mexico College, in the town of Española, to learn about the dangers of nuclear radiation. The students ranged in age from ...

Maintaining international nuclear security requires tracking and monitoring fissile materials, such as plutonium and uranium. Standoff radiation detectors, which can measure radioactivity from afar, ...

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 ...

Unreasonably strict radiation exposure limits are holding back nuclear power development, according to a July report from Idaho National Laboratory (INL) researchers. The report challenges the current ...

The IAEA Radiation Safety Technical Services Laboratory in Vienna and Seibersdorf provides individual and workplace monitoring as well as calibration and loan services of survey instruments to the ...