EHS determines what type of dosimeter(s) you will need based on the degree of hazard you will be working with. There are several situations in which dosimeters are not required. When you submit a Form ...

Disposal facilities for waste that remains radioactive for a very long time must consider that in the future, control over the disposal facility might be disrupted, and information about hazard lost ...

Eyes High doses can cause cataracts. Thyroid Radioactive iodine can build up and cause cancer, particularly during growth. Lungs Breathing in radioisotopes can damage DNA. Stomach Radioactive ...

Some of the effects that radiation has on a human body are shown below. Eyes High doses can cause cataracts. Thyroid Radioactive iodine can build up and cause cancer, particularly during growth.

sealed radioactive sources needed in industry, and during the movement of containers carrying spent nuclear fuel from operating and decommissioning nuclear reactors. As a result, in over 50 years ...

Emmanuel Steven Lidden could be sentenced to 10 years in jail after ordering radioactive substances, including plutonium, in the mail in an attempt to collect all the elements of the periodic table ...

In episode four of the HBO miniseries "Chernobyl," Soviet officials assess the damage of a 1986 power-plant explosion, which released plumes of radioactive material into the air. The roof of the ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency greenlit a Mosaic Co. study to use a radioactive waste from fertilizer production as ...

The local newspaper receives an anonymous call—a terrorist group has placed a bomb in the basement of a downtown bank. Immediately, the area is evacuated. But if the bomb isn't removed or ...

Florida lawmakers take a stand against adding cavity-fighting fluoride in drinking water, but not on adding radioactive waste to roadways.

All radioactive materials ... steam and mixing it with air so that it dilutes safely and poses no health hazard to people on the ground. The total amount of tritium contained in the storage ...