In 1986, a radiation machine at Tyler's East Texas Cancer Center killed two patients. Medical physicist Fritz Hager's ...

While expanding nuclear energy production would provide carbon-free power and can help countries around the world meet their climate goals, nuclear energy could also come with some inherent risk.

Researchers at the Institute of Science Tokyo in Japan have built a 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi receiver chip designed to survive the intense radiation inside damaged nuclear reactors, a development that could free ...

On April 26, 1986, the world experienced the worst nuclear power plant disaster in history: the explosion and fire of reactor ...

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A Houston Police Department officer driving to work last month felt the buzzing vibration alert of a cell-phone sized device provided by the federal government as part of a grant program. The buzzing ...

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The Chernobyl disaster is probably the most memorable nuclear disaster in history due to the explosion and all the deaths caused by severe radiation poisoning. Research that shows the dogs of ...

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 ...

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