Hisashi Ouchi suffered a horrific 83-day death from radiation exposure after a criticality accident at a Japanese nuclear ...

He received a massive overdose. He was hospitalized for radiation sickness, and died 5 months later. On April 11th, 1986, a second accident occurred in Tyler, Texas. This time the patient was ...

During the 1950s and 1960s, I remember the government-conducted Civil Defense drills in my school. We were told to climb under our school desks, duck down and cover our heads. We might have survived a ...

Radiation monitoring is an important undertaking ... IRSN helped develop crucial atmospheric dispersion models for use in nuclear accidents. Pictured is the spread of the radioactive plume ...

the Earth naturally produces radiation, exposing us to radioactive materials every day. However, the effects of nuclear ...

These rules are designed to limit unnecessary radiation exposures and contamination of the facilities and equipment and to minimize the consequences of a radiation accident if it should occur. Copies ...

has implications for our understanding of the effects of nuclear radiation exposure on populations. “Most people think of the Chernobyl nuclear accident as a radiological disaster in an ...

The Department of Energy said Friday low-altitude helicopter flights to measure background radiation will be done over New ...

The number of early acute health effects and deaths owing to radiation accidents in medicine exceeds the number from accidents in any other peaceful use of radiation including nuclear power. A large ...

Accident dosimetry is a critical field that focuses on measuring and assessing radiation exposure in the event of accidents, particularly those involving nuclear facilities or natural disasters.