A hospital left behind a radioactive cesium-137 teletherapy unit, with deadly consequences.

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Iran's Foreign Minister warns of radioactive fallout in the GCC due to US-Israeli attacks on the Bushehr nuclear plant, ...

Strikes to Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant could release long-lasting radioactive cesium 137 into the Persian Gulf, ...

Communities and servicemen have long argued they were harmed by fallout from above-ground nuclear weapons tests – but the UK ...

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Hundreds of 55-gallon drums filled with low-level radioactive waste have sat buried or stored at a site in western ...

The IAEA estimates that 20 million shipments of nuclear and other radioactive material are transported every year for peaceful applications in energy, medicine, education, agriculture and industry.

Glassified radioactive waste is going into a lined landfill at Hanford.

One of the most formidable obstacles to exploiting the full potential of nuclear energy is the long-term disposal of highly radioactive waste that is generated by the burning of fuel in nuclear ...