U.S. Department of Energy drops ALARA, challenging global radiation safety norms as reforms and debates intensify.

As a business owner, you likely have a strong attachment to your cell phone, and may have concerns about possible radiation hazards connected to cell use. As of 2013, this remains a controversial ...

Dräger, an international leader in the fields of medical and safety technology, announced the release of the Dräger X-site Live, a state-of-the-art area monitoring kit for gas and radiation hazard ...

Nuclear gauges are devices with a radioactive source or radiation generator, which are used to measure parameters such as thickness, density and moisture in materials like pavements, petroleum and ...

Scientists from the University of New Hampshire and colleagues have published comprehensive findings on space-based radiation as measured by a UNH-led detector aboard NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance ...

If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. Non-medical human imaging is the use of radiation to ...

Energy Secretary Chris Wright killed the Department of Energy’s decades-old radiation safety standard Friday. Wright ended the department’s use of the As Low As Reasonably Achievable — or “ALARA” — ...

Data returned by the ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter indicates that astronauts on even short future Mars missions could face significant space radiation hazards. The readings from the orbiter ...

The participants in the workshop reached consensus on a number of key issues. The six separate working groups selected representatives to present their summary conclusions at the end of the workshop ...

The long-range plans of NASA include possible human exploratory missions to the moon and Mars within the next 25 years. There are three potentially serious health effects for crew members that need to ...