The total area burned in the recent Los Angeles fires is comparable to that of the primary destruction zone of a strategic ...

The Semipalatinsk Test Site, also called the Polygon, is lesser known but was used by the Soviet Union to test nuclear ...

The military exposed thousands of servicemen to radioactivity when it called them to participate in nuclear weapons tests, ...

Radioactive materials are found naturally in the Earth. But even so, saying an area is radioactive can conjure up images of ...

Today, with electricity demand soaring and AI companies clamoring for their own nuclear power plants, from small modular ...

Although Chernobyl is the most well known, there are a host of other radioactive places in the world in countries including ...

It’s getting hotter — and more expensive to stay cool — in the island nation. Will it become the first in Southeast Asia to ...

We might have survived a bomb blast but the radioactive ... residents of potential health effects.” Native Americans who worked in Uranium mines died from radiation exposures.

Only two atomic bombs have ever been dropped in ... he could not escape the effects of the radiation. He has had kidney and liver problems since the age of 35, and recently had treatment for ...

Amelia Neath looks at some of the dark places people are drawn to where tragedies have occurred, such as Chernobyl, Hiroshima and the killing fields in Cambodia ...