The number of early acute health effects and deaths owing to radiation accidents in medicine exceeds the number from accidents in any other peaceful use of radiation including nuclear power. A large ...

Focusing on radiation biology, researchers at the State ... Improper nuclear waste disposal, nuclear fuel processing and nuclear accidents have resulted in radioactive contamination, threatening ...

It was a radiation therapy machine ... paper with [Clark Turner] entitled “An Investigation of the Therac-25 Accidents”. [Nancy] has since published updated information in a second paper ...

Radiation can be defined as energy traveling through space. There are two types of radiation, ionizing and non-ionizing, which are differentiated by how they interact with matter. Non-ionizing ...

Radiation Protection of Patients (RPOP) – the leading resource for health professionals, patients and public on the safe and effective use of radiation in medicine. Health professionals can find ...

the Earth naturally produces radiation, exposing us to radioactive materials every day. However, the effects of nuclear accidents such as the tragedy that occurred at Chernobyl have not yet ...

Jairus Hines at ORNL uses drones for cost-effective radiation detection, enhancing safety in national security missions.

Lasers (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation), which produce an intense and highly directional beam of light, are used in many teaching and research applications on RIT's campus.

Radiation levels have not increased ... causing one of the worst nuclear accidents in nuclear history. Built in 2016, the shell is designed to limit the release of radioactivity left in the ...