If the U.S. does drop a powerful "bunker buster" bomb on a suspected underground nuclear weapons site in Iran, experts in radiation hazards say there is little risk of widespread contamination. As we ...
Not long ago, I met a woman from Belarus. She told me about the terrible aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident in April 1986. As a child, she’d had to evacuate her home, which was contaminated ...
A General Electric generator produces electricity from the nuclear-powered steam-driven turbine at the NextEra Energy Duane Arnold Energy Center in Palo, Iowa, on Monday, April 8, 2019. (Jim Slosiarek ...
As the conflict between Israel and Iran intensifies, air strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites could have serious health consequences across the region. Monitoring groups have not yet documented any such ...
One expert says explosive nuclear testing would be 'alarming.' President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he is ordering the United States to resume nuclear testing, leaving experts wondering ...
OSLO, March 13 (Reuters) - Health risks from Japan's quake-hit nuclear power reactors seem fairly low and winds are likely to carry any contamination out to the Pacific without threatening other ...
The world is closer than ever to destruction, according to the Doomsday Clock, an attempt by the Chicago-based Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to warn world leaders and civilians of man-made global ...