"These women had suffered and endured so much," 22-year-old filmmaker Emma Watts said. "They've been waiting so long for ...

On the increasingly rare occasions when this old lady has to drive in the winter, I try to wait until after the road-clearing ...

We receive internal exposure from radioactive elements which we take into our bodies through food and water, and through the air we breathe. In addition, we have radioactive elements (Potassium 40, ...

Tragically, many of the dial painters died from radium poisoning, but their efforts pushed the government to introduce safety standards. These standards were also applied to plutonium as the ...

Mixed with the right kind of paint, radium would luminesce after exposure to light, so that a watch face painted with the stuff could soak up energy during the day and stay visible all night long.

An IAEA expert mission was deployed to Suva, Fiji, to support the recovery and transportation of radium-226 to the USA, where the sources will be used as a feedstock to produce actinium-225, an ...