A failure to periodically calibrate radiation monitoring equipment at Entergy Louisiana's Waterford 3 nuclear power plant in Killona has earned the company a verbal slap on the wrist from the Nuclear ...

Radioactivity has always been a fascinating phenomenon for anyone interested in physics, and as a result we’ve featured many radioactivity-related projects on these pages over the years. More recently ...

SEABROOK — A small metal box tied to an antenna on a beach house could be key in detecting a nuclear emergency, monitoring radiation in real-time across the harbor from Seabrook’s power plant. The ...

There’s no shortage of Geiger counter projects based on the old Soviet SBM-20 tube, it’s a classic circuit that’s easy enough even for a beginner to implement — so long as they don’t get bitten by the ...

LIVERMORE, Calif. — Every day at ports of entry, hundreds of thousands of vehicles and containers cross into the country. Since 9/11, all incoming vehicles and containers at land crossings, rail ...