Your mobile phone can reveal whether you have been exposed to radiation
In accidents or terror attacks which are suspected to involve radioactive substances, it can be difficult to determine whether people nearby have been exposed to radiation. But by analysing mobile...
View ArticleWhy nuclear could become the next 'fossil' fuel
A gray dinosaur statue outside south Florida's largest power plant is meant to symbolize two decommissioned fossil fuel reactors, but it also could be seen to represent a nuclear industry crumpling...
View ArticleNew-generation material removes iodine from water
Researchers at Dartmouth College have developed a new material that scrubs iodine from water for the first time. The breakthrough could hold the key to cleaning radioactive waste in nuclear reactors...
View ArticleTeam improves remote detection of hazardous radioactive substances
A recent study, affiliated with UNIST has introduced a method for the remote detection of hazardous radioactive substances. With the help of this newly-developed detection device, the detection of...
View ArticleLong duration experiments reach 1,000th day
The first experiment placed on Diamond's Long Duration Experimental (LDE) facility, on beamline I11, has now been in place for 1,000 days. The experiment, led by Dr Claire Corkhill from the University...
View ArticleFungi can be used as biomonitors for assessing radioactivity in our environment
Radioactive contamination is the unwanted presence of radioactive substances in the environment. The environment is contaminated by naturally occurring and anthropogenic radionuclides, unstable...
View ArticlePossible melted fuel seen for first time at Fukushima plant
An underwater robot captured images of solidified lava-like rocks Friday inside a damaged reactor at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, spotting for the first time what is believed to be nuclear...
View ArticleSeeing more with PET scans: Surprising new mechanism for attaching chemical...
Researchers have found a surprisingly versatile workaround to create chemical compounds that could prove useful for medical imaging and drug development.
View ArticleNew simulations could help in hunt for massive mergers of neutron stars,...
Now that scientists can detect the wiggly distortions in space-time created by the merger of massive black holes, they are setting their sights on the dynamics and aftermath of other cosmic duos that...
View ArticleNew work offers fresh evidence supporting the supernova shock wave theory of...
According to one longstanding theory, our Solar System's formation was triggered by a shock wave from an exploding supernova. The shock wave injected material from the exploding star into a neighboring...
View ArticleStudy negates concerns regarding radioactivity in migratory seafood
When the Fukushima power plant released large quantities of radioactive materials into nearby coastal waters following Japan's massive 2011 earthquake and tsunami, it raised concerns as to whether...
View ArticleEmergency method for measuring strontium levels in milk
In a recently published study, UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country's Nuclear and Radiological Safety research group has tested the viability of a method proposed by the International Atomic Energy...
View ArticleMultiple challenges remain to Fukushima nuclear cleanup
Japan's government approved a revised road map Tuesday to clean up the radioactive mess left at the Fukushima nuclear power plant after it was damaged beyond repair by an earthquake and tsunami in...
View ArticleNuclear agency inspecting Maryland lab after contamination
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has begun a special inspection at a facility in suburban Maryland following a worker's potential exposure to radioactive contamination.
View ArticleWater can be corrosive to life, so what about alternative solvents?
Life on early Earth seems to have begun with a paradox: while life needs water as a solvent, the essential chemical backbones of early life-forming molecules fall apart in water. Our universal solvent,...
View ArticleScientists find new source of radioactivity from Fukushima disaster
Scientists have found a previously unsuspected place where radioactive material from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant disaster has accumulated—in sands and brackish groundwater beneath...
View ArticleSafety assistance system warns of dirty bombs
The threat of terrorism in Europe has been on the rise in recent years, with experts and politicians particularly worried that terrorists might make use of dirty bombs. Fraunhofer researchers have...
View ArticleSpike in airborne radioactivity detected in Europe
German officials say that a spike in radioactivity has been detected in the air in Western and Central Europe but there's no threat to human health.
View ArticleViolation of the exponential decay law discovered in open quantum systems
(Phys.org)—Ever since the early days of quantum mechanics, the decay dynamics of unstable quantum systems has been thought to follow an exponential decay law, just like the one used to describe...
View ArticleVideo: How do we know the age of the Earth?
The Earth is 4.565 billion years old, give or take a few million years. How do scientists know that? Since there's no "established in" plaque stuck in a cliff somewhere, geologists deduced the age of...
View ArticleNew study investigates effectiveness of nanoscale nuclear waste filter
In a study that used metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) to trap radioactive molecules, UT Dallas scientists helped determine how the binding occurred and why the capacity for iodine capture was so high....
View ArticleRadioactivity lingers from 1946-1958 nuclear bomb tests
Scientists have found lingering radioactivity in the lagoons of remote Marshall Island atolls in the Pacific Ocean where the United States conducted 66 nuclear weapons tests in the 1940s and 1950s.
View ArticleLEDs light the way for better drug therapies
Radioactivity may have a bad rap, but it plays a critical role in medical research. A revolutionary new technique to create radioactive molecules, pioneered in the lab of Princeton chemistry professor...
View ArticleA fast reactor system to shorten the lifetime of long-lived fission products
A team of scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) working in collaboration with Tohoku University, Tokyo City University and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency has proposed a novel...
View ArticleRussia confirms 'extremely high' readings of radioactive pollution
Russia's meteorological service confirmed on Monday "extremely high" concentrations of the radioactive isotope ruthenium-106 in parts of the country in late September, following European reports about...
View ArticleRussia denies nuclear accident after radioactive pollution
Russia on Tuesday denied its nuclear facilities experienced any incidents after reports of contamination by the ruthenium 106 radioactive isotope in parts of the country, and said the concentration...
View ArticleRussia opens commission into 'nuclear incident' report
A Russian scientific commission will investigate reports of radioactive pollution almost 1,000 times above normal levels in the southern Urals, state nuclear company Rosatom said Friday.
View ArticleHow the SuperNEMO experiment could help solve the mystery of the origin of...
The Savoy region of France is best known for its fir-lined ski slopes and picturesque Alpine villages. Less known is the fact that, deep beneath some of these slopes, scientists are investigating one...
View ArticleAn orbital dance may help preserve oceans on icy worlds
Heat generated by the gravitational pull of moons formed from massive collisions could extend the lifetimes of liquid water oceans beneath the surface of large icy worlds in our outer solar system,...
View ArticleRussia claims radioactivity spike not due to nuclear plant
Russian authorities denied Friday that a radioactivity spike in the air over Europe this fall resulted from a nuclear fuel processing plant leak in the Ural mountains, saying their probe has found no...
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