Radioactive materials play a crucial role in treating cancer, often used in hospitals to target and destroy harmful cells.

One possible solution that the ORNL researchers are exploring as part of the Smart Packaging for Critical Energy Shipments ...

ORNL's advanced tracking technology could make shipments of ORNL's isotopes more secure. Credit: Alonda Hines/ORNL, U.S. Dept ...

Truck representing nuclear fuel and waste will travel between port and nuclear sites • The truck will travel from the Port of Newcastle to ...

Hazardous chemicals and radioactive materials were found in the home of a Hadley man who has been indicted for allegedly possessing illegal explosives and ammunition, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

In a new breakthrough, a team of physicists from the U.S. has successfully demonstrated a new way to detect radioactive materials using carbon-dioxide lasers — from a distance. The potential ...

The team exploited a phenomenon known as ionization, in which radioactive material ionizes the air around it. As the material passes through it, it releases particles that knock electrons out of ...

WHEN you think of radioactive material, one would immediately associate it with a green glow. Take the opening sequence of The Simpsons animated series, for example, where the Homer Simpson ...