On a Wednesday morning in late January 1896 at a small light bulb factory in Chicago, a middle-aged woman named Rose Lee found herself at the heart of a groundbreaking medical endeavor. With an X-ray ...

More than a half century after the U.S. ignited 67 atomic weapons in the central Pacific Ocean, a former Navy base in the Bay ...

President Donald Trump announced he is ordering the U.S. to resume nuclear testing, leaving experts wondering what this would entail and how it would be implemented.

A fragment of waste found near Dounreay in April was the most radioactive to be detected in the last three years, the Highland nuclear site's operator has said. Sand-sized particles of irradiated ...

It all begins with Earth’s magnetic field, an invisible shield that protects us from most of the radiation and charged ...

More radioactive particles have been found by an environmental watchdog as officers monitor a beach where highly radioactive material was discovered. Seventeen radioactive particles have been found ...

Residents in Pennsylvania are calling out a local waste management facility after radioactive particles were found in their drinking water, but their fight may just be beginning. In 2013, after his ...

KENNEWICK – The two workers who took the brunt of contamination during a release of radioactivity in a 2021 incident within the Northwest’s only commercial nuclear power reactor have sued Energy ...

This story was originally performed at KUT’s ATXplained Live show on April 29. Get tickets for our next show on Oct. 29! One of the Texas Capitol’s most striking features is the Hill Country granite ...