Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill, pictured here in 2019, was fined for sending leachate polluted with oil and gas waste including radium to a nearby sewage treatment plant which was not able to meet its ...

For obvious reasons, radioactive material is a restricted commodity. Users must go through radiation safety training and the project approval process before they can begin ordering and using ...

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 ...

HOUSTON (CBSNewsTexas.com) — A missing camera would not normally make headlines, but it's an entirely different story when that camera happens to contain radioactive material. Officials with the Texas ...

Rhino poachers in South Africa now face the new potential threat of radioactive horns, and it’s thanks in part to researchers at Texas A&M University's Nuclear Engineering Department. Department ...

A massive Dallas-Fort Worth subdivision and a school have risen atop layers of oil and gas drilling waste. One worker who ...

Did You Know: An unusual yet scientifically accurate fact about one of the world’s most beloved fruits is drawing curiosity: bananas are mildly radioactive. Far from science fiction, this phenomenon ...

More than 200,000 barrels of radioactive waste have lain scattered across the Atlantic Ocean for nearly 50 years, a relic of an era when dumping nuclear materials at sea was considered safe. Between ...

In accordance with the Federal Law on the Use of Atomic Energy, the management of nuclear materials and radioactive substances during transport is one of the many elements involved in the atomic ...

EHSA allows for the entry of source use and waste generation by the Authorized User or Radiation Worker. This mechanism is meant to capture the dispensing of radioactive material from the original ...