On January 3, 1961, a fire alarm rang out at Idaho’s National Reactor Testing Station. Firefighters expected another false alarm. Instead, they found a blinking “HIGH RADIATION” warning and three ...
When you think of a US Nuclear accident, you probably think of Three Mile Island. However, there have been over 50 accidents of varying severity in the US, with few direct casualties. (No one died ...
Israeli strikes on Iranian nuclear sites are raising fears of a harmful radioactive accident, including from the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) – but experts have ...
Severe accidents in nuclear reactors, though low-probability events, pose significant risks to human safety, the environment, and public trust in nuclear ...
A new genetic study examines an unusually large hybridization event that followed the Fukushima nuclear accident, when ...
Know that popular Liberty Insurance Mutual commercial that jokingly shows people making small mistakes — dropping an air conditioning unit from an upper-story window or forgetting to put on the ...
A survey has found hundreds of thyroid tumors, but Japanese officials say they are unrelated to the Fukushima meltdowns. Now they face a lawsuit. By Martin Fackler Reporting from Koriyama, Japan She ...