The reconciliation law signed by President Donald Trump last week will provide greater compensation to more victims of ...

The federal government’s program that gives payments to people sickened by nuclear testing or uranium mining is one step ...

With darting red and green beams above me and large mechanical eyes and grids humming and moving around me, I feel as though I’m in a 1950s sci-fi movie.

Many people have decided to hedge their bets against radiation anyway. Stores up and down the West Coast are running low on kelp supplements and other sources of iodine, a nutrient that can ...

If radiation exposure kills people, why is it an effective cancer treatment? This question was originally answered on Quora by Gary Larson.

Most people interpret radiation as a bad thing—but it isn’t always. In fact, radiation is a very normal phenomenon. For now, let’s just say that radiation is when an object produces energy.

Young girls could be up to 10 times more vulnerable to nuclear radiation than other members of society, with girls aged up to five twice as likely to develop cancer as boys of the same age.

People often confuse non-ionizing radiation — the low-frequency radiation that comes from our cell phones or home appliances that cannot damage DNA or cells directly — with ionizing radiation ...

What was the highest acute radiation dose ever survived? About 300,000 rads. For context, 400 rads is normally enough to kill 50% of humans. 1,000 rads kills pretty much everybody.

Northwest Public Broadcasting senior correspondent Anna King, who has been reporting on Hanford for over 20 years, joins us to talk about the people who were affected by radiation from the Hanford ...

As the NASA astronauts who crewed Boeing's Starliner to the ISS wait until February 2025 to come home, here's how much radiation they may have been exposed to.

Sending people to Mars won’t be easy. There are the obvious challenges like getting people and supplies into space and landing them safely on another planet. And once they arrive, they’ll need ...