When nuclear accidents happen, many people imagine radiation spreading everywhere and lasting forever. The reality is more ...

Nikolay Solovyov was on shift the night of April 26, 1986 when the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded. Instead of fleeing ...

Swami Jnanananda’s life traces a rare journey from years of meditation in the Himalayas to advanced research in nuclear ...

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The rise of a new generation of radiotherapies means we will soon need much greater quantities of radioactive atoms. That's ...

Atomic clocks that excite the nucleus of thorium-229 embedded in a transparent crystal when hit by a laser beam could yield the most accurate measurements ever of time and gravity, and even rewrite ...

Ever since the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in 1986, scientists have needed to monitor radioactive conditions inside. That job currently falls to Anatoly Doroshenko, who explains the dangers and ...

Nuclear energy stands as one of the most reliable and cleanest power sources, yet for many, it evokes the horrors of ...

Purdue University’s online Master of Nuclear Engineering (MNE) program provides engineers with a top-ranked education to advance their expertise in the evolving field of nuclear energy. Nuclear ...

Just a few hundred feet from where we are sitting is a large metal chamber devoid of air and draped with the wires needed to control the instruments inside. A beam of particles passes through the ...

Medical exposure is the largest human-made source of radiation exposure, accounting for more than 95% of radiation exposure. Furthermore, the use of radiation in medicine continues to increase ...