Authorities in Turkey reportedly discovered $72 million worth of a radioactive element — used in nuclear reactors and found in the fallout of nuclear explosions — from a car. The 18.1 grams of ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Groundbreaking work by a team of chemists on a fringe element of the periodic table could change how the world stores radioactive waste and recycles fuel. The element is called ...

TURKISH police raised eyebrows when they announced the seizure of 1.4 kilograms of the radioactive element californium last month. Four men were arrested, who had allegedly hoped to sell the material ...

Q: In the NOVA "Dirty Bomb" episode, the experts talked about radioactive substances scattered all over the former Soviet Union and that Russia has forgotten their locations or has failed to recover ...

Pakistan’s Foreign Office on Monday expressed “serious concerns” over the safety and security of nuclear and other radioactive materials in India, noting recent reports suggested the presence of a ...

We're all familiar with the lighter elements of the periodic table—the noble gases and mainstay transition metals, such as iron and copper. The real fun, however, is down at the bottom, among the ...

The US Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) reported that it has recovered and secured over 15,000 radioactive sources from around the USA since 1999. The US ...

First conceived in the combustion of a hydrogen bomb on the South Pacific island of Elugelab in 1952, the heavy element einsteinium is one of the shier members of the Periodic Table; it doesn’t ...

Engineers have successfully transmitted digital information wirelessly using nuclear radiation rather than the electromagnetic signals traditionally used in wireless communication systems like ...