The purpose of this Sandia National Laboratories' sponsored study is to support existing and future activities under the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Office of Radiological Security ...

Radioactive sources are used in the oil and gas industry to characterize wells providing critical data to exploit geological formations in pursuit of oil caches. These mobile radioactive sources are ...

People often think of radiation as the basis for carbon-free nuclear power. But radiation can also save lives. That’s especially true in hospitals where professionals use nuclear medicine to make ...

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. Sealed radioactive sources (SRSs) are used to facilitate ...

In this lesson, students will investigate the nature of radioactivity and the effect of both distance and shielding materials on different radioactive sources using a Geiger-Muller tube with a counter ...

An IAEA Disused Sealed Radioactive Sources Technical Centres (DSRS-TeC) peer review mission concluded in Slovenia this month, marking the country’s first comprehensive examination of its procedures ...

Leaders from the US Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration and the European Commission have highlighted the need to strengthen security of radioactive sources in open civilian ...

A record number of 31 disused sealed radioactive sources have been transferred from Chile to a recycling facility in Europe as part of an International Atomic Energy Agency multi-regional project to ...

A Houston Police Department officer driving to work last month felt the buzzing vibration alert of a cell-phone sized device provided by the federal government as part of a grant program. The buzzing ...

Think about a garden where flowers bloom beside nuclear reactors. It sounds impossible, yet it's happening right now. Since the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, scientists have watched in amazement as ...