Radiation is defined as the emission of energy from an atom in the form of a wave or particle. Such energy is released as electromagnetic radiation or as radioactivity. Electromagnetic radiation includes radio waves, infrared waves or heat, visible...

Radioactive contamination is the uncontrolled distribution of radioactive material in a given environment. The amount of radioactive material released in an accident is called the source...

COLLEEN MANCINO, Staff Writer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 05-16-1993 STREETS SEARCHED FOR RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION By COLLEEN MANCINO, Staff Writer Date: 05-16-1993, Sunday Section: NEWS Edition: All Editions -- Sunday Notes: Passaic page. Federal environmental officials this week searched for "hot" spots...

Norrell, Brenda Indian Country Today (Lakota Times) 06-07-2000 Energy monitors Los Alamos contamination: No results released on radioactive contamination By Brenda Norrell TODAY STAFF WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Department of Energy is monitoring contamination in the environment resulting from the...

North Korea has started building a fence around the site of its first-ever nuclear test, a move U.S. and South Korean authorities believe may be to monitor the detonation's effects and restore the area, a news report said Sunday.South Korea has received intelligence that a...

Key developments in the poisoning of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko:Nov. 1 _ Litvinenko meets at a London hotel with another former KGB agent, Andrei Lugovoi, along with Dmitry Kovtun and Vyacheslav Sokolenko. Afterward, he goes to a sushi bar to meet Italian academic Mario...