ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – Los Alamos National Laboratory significantly underestimated how much radiation could leak from the nation’s premier plutonium lab after a major earthquake and fire, a federal ...

Radioactive materials and/or radiation-producing machines may be transferred to another appropriately licensed laboratory following approval from the CU Radiation Safety Office. Once approval from the ...

The military exposed thousands of servicemen to radioactivity when it called them to participate in nuclear weapons tests, including Operation Teapot in 1955. One was Eldridge Jones, who later ...

The United States House of Representatives has passed H.R. 6938, the Commerce, Justice, Science; Energy and Water Development; and Interior and Environment Appr ...

This site handled (or was contaminated by) uranium, according to government records. The Department of Energy initially considered cleaning up this site under the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial ...

As the cloud cleared, Air Force bombers dropped in to gather air samples. Researchers hoped that the radioactive fallout ...

NASA and the Department of Energy signed an agreement earlier this week committing to put a nuclear reactor on the moon in ...

Southwest Research Institute has upgraded its nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) laboratory to offer robust chemical analysis of organic compounds used in drug discovery and development.

Scientists have detected elevated levels of iodine-129, a nuclear activity tracer, in the West Philippine Sea.