Researchers are always developing better battery technologies, hoping to find ones that last a long time and never need to be ...

The team is optimistic that with the right mix of radioactive material and tech, the concept could be used for more applications, mostly in already radioactive settings. The United States' 54 nuclear ...

The Radiation Safety Office checks such sources for radioactive material leakage on a semiannual (six month) basis. Similar to radiation emitting devices, users should periodically perform a General ...

All types of radiation become less intense as they travel further away from the radioactive material. This is because the particles or rays become more spread out. The thicker the substance ...

Over the past year, Tokyo Electric Power Co. has released 60,000 ... The amount of water contaminated with high levels of radioactive materials continues to increase by approximately 80 tons ...

Some landowners had no idea their plots contained radioactive material. Tokyo Electric Power Co., operator of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, shouldered the cost of the cleanup.