Armed with measuring devices, groups of citizens are embracing science to monitor radioactive fallout — and regain control of ...

Radiation -induced mutations may not be the reason for the genetic differences between dog populations living near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, according to a new study. The study, published on ...

Many of us don’t think too much about radiation levels in our area, until a nuclear disaster hits and questions are raised. Radiation monitoring is an important undertaking, both from a public ...

“Most people think of the Chernobyl nuclear accident as a radiological disaster in an abandoned corner of Ukraine, but the potential adverse health implications are much wider,” said Norman ...

The International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES) is a tool for communicating the safety significance of nuclear and radiological events to the public. Member States use INES on a ...

In the shadow of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, thousands of feral dogs ... into their DNA to explore how decades of exposure to radiation might have shaped their genomes — and possibly ...