FILE -A radiation monitor indicates 131.00 mSv per hour near Unit 3 and 4 reactor buildings at Tokyo Electric Power Co.,'s tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station in Okuma ...

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In the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, a place where radiation levels remain dangerously high decades after the 1986 nuclear disaster, scientists have discovered an organism defying the odds. A black fungus ...

Table 1 provides a summary of the results of disinfection of pathogens in hospital rooms using the Sterilray device. For MRSA (n =27 rooms and 106 culture sites) and C. difficile (n =67 rooms and ...

The dominant source of radiation exposure for people stemmed from gamma rays emitted by contaminated soils, pavements, roads and buildings. The objective of the decontamination operation was to ...

Troops from the U.S., Thailand and Japan, specially trained in chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear defense, or CBRN, led the decontamination drill. No real radiation was involved, but ...

The government said Tuesday that it will promote the reuse of soil removed during radiation decontamination work after the 2011 nuclear accident in Fukushima Prefecture.