Uranium enrichment concentrates one specific type of the atom to create a substance that can generate massive amounts of ...

China has reopened its market to seafood from Japan after a nearly two-year ban over the discharge of slightly radioactive ...

Marie Curie worked with radioactive material with her bare hands. More than 100 years later, Sophie Hardach travels to Paris ...

More common than gold, uranium is abundant on Earth. But less than one percent of the naturally occurring element is useful ...

Plutonium stands as one of the most dangerous and toxic elements ever created by humanity. This video explores the science behind plutonium, explaining why it is so hazardous, how it’s produced ...

China partially lifted a ban on seafood imports from Japan after nearly two years over Tokyo ’s release of treated ...

Marie Curie worked here from 1914 until 1934, the year of her death, handling radioactive elements including radium, which she and her husband Pierre Curie had discovered in 1898.

In a study published in Physical Review Letters, scientists at GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung have discovered ...

For years, astronomers puzzled over the mystery of where the heaviest elements in the universe—like gold, uranium, and platinum—come from. Scientists understood that these elements had to form under ...

For nearly five decades, more than 200,000 barrels of radioactive waste were dumped in the icy depths of the northeast ...