Radiation exposures of U.S. astronauts recorded over several MIR missions of 115 to 180 days duration have been approximately 10.67 to 17.20 REM. If similar levels of exposure are experienced during ...

On February 27, 2011, when his plane flew over Sendai, Mulvihill thought, “I always remember Japan as hilly and mountainous, but this area is so flat . . . . a big wave could really travel far inland.

Activities LECTURE The Introduction to Radiation lesson begins with a lecture (link to presentation). Students will complete guided lecture notes as they follow along with the lecture presentation. A ...

Greg Mitchell writes the Media Fix blog for TheNation.com. The worst nuclear disaster to strike Japan since a single bomb fell over Nagasaki in 1945 occurred in the spring of 2011 at the Fukushima ...

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. The Tohoku earthquake on 11 March 2011 and the following ...

Radiation incidents, whether caused by industrial accidents, natural disasters, or technical failures, often generate intense public fear. The word ...

It was after lunch on 11 March 2011 that a giant earthquake occurred 72 kilometers (45 miles) off the Oshika Peninsula in Japan. It registered 9.0 on the Richter Scale, making it the largest ’quake ...

Real-World Treatment Patterns and Clinical Outcomes After Platinum-Doublet Chemotherapy and Immunotherapy in Metastatic Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Multiregional Chart Review in the United States, ...

More than half of people diagnosed with cancer have radiation therapy, which uses carefully targeted doses of high-energy radiation to kill cancer cells. Radiation oncologists are the highly trained ...

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 ...