Horrifying. The post Trump Administration Scrapping Nuclear Energy Rules Requiring Plants to Keep Radiation Levels “As Low as ...

Outdated radiation standards drive costs and public fear, stalling nuclear innovation. Science-based reforms could unlock advanced reactors and secure US energy leadership. Executive Order 14300 calls ...

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a new and faster method for detecting and measuring the radioactivity of minuscule amounts of radioactive ...

President Donald Trump issued Executive Order 14300 on May 23, 2025, aiming to reform the red tape–wrapped Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), which has long stood in the way of the development and ...

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission plans to end longstanding guidance that radiation exposure be “as low as reasonably ...

Drums of highly toxic radioactive transuranic wastes sit inside a salt cavern at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, New Mexico in 2006. Credit: Brian Vander Brug/Los Angeles Times via Getty ...

Radioactive materials are vital for medicine, agriculture and for nuclear energy - but the challenge is to ensure that the 20 million packages sent each year can be transported safely and speedily to ...

When nuclear accidents happen, many people imagine radiation spreading everywhere and lasting forever. The reality is more complex. Radioactive materials move, change and sometimes disappear faster ...

A New Science. The beginnings. The setting ; Rays and radiation ; Becquerel's discovery -- The Curies. Maria Skłodowska ; A consequential meeting ; New elements! -- Rutherford, Soddy, particles, and ...

Nuclear power plants use radioactive materials to create energy, but which materials specifically? Turns out, it's mostly ...

Every year, millions of shipments of radioactive material are transported by land, air and sea. These materials are crucial for medicine, industry, research, agriculture and energy production. Because ...

Workers at a site in South Carolina that once made key parts for nuclear bombs in the U.S. have found a radioactive wasp nest but officials said there is no danger to anyone. Employees who routinely ...