Research at Chernobyl and Fukushima shows how radioactive materials move in the environment

When nuclear accidents happen, many people imagine radiation spreading everywhere and lasting forever. The reality is more ...
The Lancet

The medicine of…nuclear power plants

As part of a continuing series, Talha Burki looks at the issues at the core of medicine in nuclear power plants.
AOL

Chilling doomsday nuclear map reveals how fast US citizens would die from explosion

A chilling map simulation created by top scientists reveals how residents across North America could be impacted by nuclear fallout. Researchers at the Brown Institute for Media Innovation and the ...
E&E

NRC considers eliminating half-century-old radiation standard

The principle that radiation exposure should be as low as possible to protect human health has endured at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for more than half a century. The NRC is now taking its ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Exposure of the American People to Iodine-131 from Nevada Nuclear-Bomb Tests: Review of the National Cancer Institute Report and Public Health Implications

On January 27, 1951, the United States began a program of atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons-related devices in Nevada that continued intermittently until August 5, 1963, when the Limited Test Ban ...
Medscape

Proximity to Nuclear Plants Linked to Cancer Mortality

A recent study published in Nature Communications reported a statistical association between living near operating nuclear power plants and higher cancer mortality rates in the US. These findings ...