Foreign critics screamed that the U.S. high-altitude nuclear test of July 9 would destroy the natural radiation belt that girdles the earth. An impressive group of U.S. scientists including Professor ...

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 ...

Vladimir Putin's recent threats of nuclear weapon use are deeply concerning. A nuclear war would have catastrophic consequences, both short and long-term, including radiation-induced cancers. However, ...

As the demand for nuclear security solutions grows, distinguishing a benign medical isotope from a potential threat is ...

The Trump administration's skepticism about regulations of all types is giving visibility to a fringe theory, which posits that low doses of ionizing radiation have health benefits.

The University of Liverpool has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Mirion Technologies to expand collaboration in nuclear science, radiation protection and related strategic technologies.

Nuclear science isn't an easy thing, particularly building a working reactor, but there are a small handful of adolescents ...

If you think of nuclear energy, you may be picturing submerged nuclear waste bathed in eerie blue light. That light has a really cool explanation.

Purdue University’s online Master of Nuclear Engineering (MNE) program provides engineers with a top-ranked education to advance their expertise in the evolving field of nuclear energy. Nuclear ...

At an age when most teenagers are focused on schoolwork and video games, Taylor Wilson was attempting something that even advanced laboratories struggle to achieve. Working from his parents’ garage in ...

Aliyah Welker ’22 had never heard of health physics when she started at UMass Lowell. Neither had Cassia Fontes ’22, ’23. Yet the two former classmates, who chose the radiological health physics ...