Public interest in radiation levels rises sharply whenever there is news about nuclear power plants, military conflicts near ...

If a major disaster like Fukushima or Chornobyl ever happens again, the world would know almost straight away, thanks to an array of government and DIY radiation-monitoring programs running globally.

A forest fire on the western tip of the exclusion zone of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine has not affected background radiation levels, state authorities said today. Ukrainian radiation ...

David Victor’s wife called him at work. Why, she wondered, is there a cardboard box marked “Geiger counter” in my kitchen? And why does it contain resisters and diodes and other loose parts? Well, ...

Inside the ruined shell of reactor 4 at Chernobyl, where gamma radiation still spikes far above normal background levels, a strange life form has quietly taken hold. Thick, dark mats of fungus cling ...