The real-life accident, in the city of Goiânia, killed four people and contaminated over 240 others.

To produce actinium-227, the isotope used for an FDA-approved cancer treatment, the first step is to bombard targets of the radioisotope radium-226 in ORNL's High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR). The ...

Underneath the Ministry of Defence's Headquarters in London, a top-secret nuclear bunker has been built to protect government ...

Toothpaste has long been rumored to be an effective home remedy for acne, but does it work? Plus, discover the latest on other treatments for pimples.

While nuclear power has the potential to help cut humanity’s addiction to fossil fuels, scientists are still working on how to deal with its radioactive leftovers. The Thomas Jefferson National ...

ORNL is a leader both in developing advanced radiotherapies and in providing the radioisotopes needed for those therapies.

U.S. scientists are developing an innovation that could reduce nuclear waste storage time by 99.7%, transmuting long-lived radioactive materials into shorter-lived isotopes. The Jefferson Lab project, ...

It wasn’t long after Dr Laura Manenti landed in Sydney that she realised her new home was rather radioactive. The Milan-born experimental particle physicist had been working in Abu Dhabi before she ...