On a recent Saturday morning at the Savannah River Site Museum, a group of Scouts leaned over tables scattered with Geiger ...

A multimillion-dollar government project is betting that particle accelerators can "burn" through the world's most dangerous ...

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The DOE's Argonne National Laboratory has launched its Activated Materials Lab to study radiation effects in nuclear reactor ...

Matt Mullins, marketing and communications manager for the American Museum of Science and Energy Foundation, led the effort to bring Nuclear Science Week to Oak Ridge in October 2025. The week ...

Virginia-based Jefferson Lab is leading a project to transform nuclear waste into usable electricity while also drastically reducing its radioactive life.

It's been 65 years since Washington State University's nuclear research reactor was activated, and since then the halls of Dodgen Research facility have been busy with students ...

The Museum of Nuclear Science & History appointed Kyle Harrison, General Partner at Contrary, to its Board to bridge legacy industry with frontier technology.

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Earlier this week, the Food and Drug Administration announced that some bags of Walmart’s Great Value frozen shrimp might have been contaminated with Cesium-137. Yes, that’s the same Cesium-137 from ...