Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a new and faster method for detecting and measuring the radioactivity of minuscule amounts of radioactive ...

A concentration of one part per billion is like a pinch of salt in 10 tons of potato chips—and scientists can now find radioactive particles at concentrations millions of times smaller. In the Journal ...

Following the accident of radiation accident at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station due to the Great East Japan Earthquake, Fukushima Prefecture released "Fukushima Prefecture Radioactivity ...

A new algorithm has been developed to simultaneously estimate multiple shortwave radiation components using data from China's Fengyun-3F satellite. This innovative approach significantly improves the ...

Accident dosimetry and radiation measurement techniques form a critical subset of radiation monitoring, enabling the reconstruction of absorbed doses following unplanned radiological events. These ...

If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. Jennet Orayeva, IAEA Department of Nuclear Sciences and ...

A two-month stint on the moon would expose astronauts to roughly the same amount of radiation as they would get living on the International Space Station for five months, according to new measurements ...

The levels of activity in radiopharmaceuticals that are administered clinically are governed primarily by the need to balance the effectiveness and the safety of the medical procedure by choosing the ...

From soil and water, radioactive materials also moved into plants and animals, which posed risks to human health ...

In this lesson, students will investigate the nature of radioactivity and the effect of both distance and shielding materials on different radioactive sources using a Geiger-Muller tube with a counter ...

Background radiation is the invisible radiation that is always present in our environment. It comes from a variety of sources, both natural and man-made. Natural sources include cosmic rays from space ...