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Scientists have just uncovered why populations of radioactive pig-boar hybrids have been flourishing in Fukushima. Since the 2011 nuclear accident, a portion of Fukushima has been abandoned due to its ...

A group of university students from various public and private institutions today announced the formation of a national-level body to demand the abolition of the University and University Colleges Act ...

Increased pre-movement testing will be part of the new TB plan from April 1 next. Dairy cows and contract-reared heifers will require a clean test within 30 days before being moved between herds.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Amid ongoing concerns from members of the public about contamination related to nuclear weapon components, a sign from the Boulder County government outside ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In the early 1980s, southeast Utah was targeted as a potential dump site for high-level nuclear waste, the kind that comes from nuclear reactors. The ...

For 40 years, Martin Luther King Day has been a federal holiday. But with his legacy and landmarks of the civil rights era no longer set in stone, we thought it might be a good time to look back at ...

The element radium can be found in extremely tiny amounts in the Earth’s crust and oceans, and in its pure form it is a soft silvery metal. To an untrained eye, a small piece of radium may look like a ...

A coalition of civil society groups and public figures in India has sounded an alarm over the country's proposed privatization of its nuclear energy sector, according to Counterview. The group warned ...

Scientists in Paris discovered two new substances with incredible radioactivity. It earned them the Nobel Prize in Physics but would ultimately kill one of them. When you purchase through links on our ...

The Food and Drug Administration has issued an expanded warning about more frozen shrimp sold at retailers like Price Chopper, Albertsons and Safeway for possible radioactive chemical contamination.