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Chemistry World December 19, 2013 Rebecca Trager |
Stolen radiotherapy unit sparks soul-searching on nuclear security When a truck carrying a powerful hospital radiotherapy machine was hijacked at a fuel station near Mexico City on December second, authorities raced to find it. |
Geotimes December 2004 Laura Stafford |
Yucca on hold The Department of Energy likely will not meet its 2010 deadline to open up the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage site. |
Wired April 2003 David Ewing Duncan |
Do-or-Die at Yucca Mountain The regulatory tug-of-war over Nevada's nuclear waste dump has dragged on for decades. Meanwhile, temporary sites across the country are overflowing with radioactive fuel rods -- making them perfect targets for terror. |
Chemistry World November 20, 2009 Simon Hadlington |
Nuclear waste research resurfaces The UK government's recent announcement of a significant expansion for nuclear power generation has rekindled the debate over the safe disposal of radioactive waste. |
Geotimes January 2005 Fred Schwab |
Mount Everest, Nevada The United States entered the nuclear age more than a half-century ago, but has not yet resolved what to do with nuclear waste. |
Chemistry World June 7, 2013 Emma Stoye |
Fukushima disaster has not raised cancer risks, says UN UN scientists have concluded that the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear disaster is unlikely to push up cancer rates in Japan. |
Food Processing July 2011 Steven Hoffman |
Fukushima in Our Food Radiation from Japan is showing up in our food. Shouldn't we do something about it? |
Popular Mechanics October 22, 2008 Kate Schweitzer |
On Fringe, Radioactivity is Real, But Cures are Junk Science Radiation experts give their opinion on the mad science of this television show. |
Geotimes July 2006 Linda Rowan |
Expanding Nuclear Options The Bush administration recently proposed significant changes to U.S. nuclear policy to resolve some of our current waste disposal problems and to accelerate the development of new nuclear power capacity. |
Popular Mechanics November 6, 2009 Allie Townsend |
On Fringe, Radiation Ghoul is Pure Fiction A "scientific" scenario on this television show is debunked, because there are no known living organisms that are drawn or feed off of radiation |
IndustryWeek July 22, 2009 Peter Alpern |
MIT Nanocomposite Material Holds Promise for Energy MIT scientist creates a model to design radiation-resistant materials. |
Chemistry World August 16, 2007 John Bonner |
Chernobyl Fallout Impaired Mental Development of Swedish Infants A study finds that radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl disaster impaired the mental development of Swedish children that were still in the womb at the time of the incident. The findings suggest that infants are endangered by radiation exposure at levels previously thought to be safe. |
National Defense December 2011 Eric Beidel |
Small Device Alerts Users to Nuclear Threats FLIR Systems Inc. has developed the nanoRaider, which is the size of a pager and can accurately identify even the most shielded of radioactive sources, they say. |
AskMen.com December 7, 2001 Chris Rovny |
The Lowdown On Care Symbols How can you take care of your clothes when you don't even know how to decipher basic care symbols? That's exactly the question I asked myself when I couldn't interpret a symbol and ruined my brand new sweater as a result... |
T.H.E. Journal April 2004 |
News Briefs - Correction Correction: In the Product Watch section of our March issue, we incorrectly identified Hayes Software Systems as the manufacturer of the Symbol SPT 1800 handheld device. |
BusinessWeek August 8, 2005 Gene G. Marcial |
Symbol Looks Vulnerable Symbol Technologies is giving off bad vibes as shares have slumped from 19 to 11. |
Chemistry World January 25, 2013 Rebecca Brodie |
Reassessing the health effects of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident While the Japanese tsunami of March 2011 was devastating in its own right, the long term health consequences because of the damage to the nuclear reactor at Fukushima Daiichi are also of serious concern. |
Chemistry World March 24, 2011 Rebecca Trager |
Flights from Japan trip US airport radiation detectors Low levels of radiation have been detected on planes arriving at US airports from Japan, but experts say that overly sensitive detectors are culpable and the public should not be concerned. |
The Motley Fool March 5, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
A Symbol Setback The bar code scanner company rings up lower-than-expected earnings. |
The Motley Fool August 2, 2005 Tom Taulli |
Symbol Gets Gonged The RFID and other mobile solutions company's bad luck continues with this week's earnings report. Investors, take note. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2008 John McHale |
Cell Phone Sensors Detect Radiation to Thwart Nuclear Terrorism Researchers are engineering cell phones that help detect potential terrorist threats such as radiological "dirty bombs" and nuclear weapons. |
BusinessWeek February 12, 2007 Nichola Saminather |
Radiation Therapy: New Rays Of Hope More than two-thirds of all cancer patients in the U.S. receive radiation treatments as part of their hospital care. New technology could greatly improve the prognosis. |
Mother Jones Jul/Aug 2002 Susan Q. Stranahan |
Radioactive Recycling If the Department of Energy has its way, the nation's nuclear garbage could end up in everyday items like bicycles, frying pans, and baby strollers. |
InternetNews March 11, 2005 |
Symbol Sues Intermec Over Wi-Fi Patents After licensing talks collapse, the companies trade lawsuits over Wi-Fi technology. |
BusinessWeek March 24, 2011 Steve Featherstone |
The Future of Fukushima Prefecture In the best case, hundreds of thousands of evacuees will spend months away from home. |
Scientific American July 2009 Zeeya Merali |
Did China's Nuclear Tests Kill Thousands and Doom Future Generations? Radioactive clouds hung over villagers as China detonated nuclear bombs in the air for four decades |
BusinessWeek July 8, 2010 Charlie Rose |
Charlie Rose Talks to Anne Lauvergeon A conversation with Anne Lauvergeon; the French call the CEO of the largely state-owned nuclear power company Areva "Atomic Annie." |
PC Magazine May 18, 2005 Neil J. Rubenking |
Advanced Find and Replace in Word The Find and Replace function in Microsoft Word is extremely useful, but I can't always make it work the way I want. |
Science News July 8, 2006 |
Science Safari: Visiting RadTown The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has launched an interactive Web site that uses an animated town to provide basic information on radiation in the environment. |
InternetNews September 19, 2006 Ed Sutherland |
A $3.9B Symbol For Motorola Motorola has acquired Symbol Technologies, a $3.9 billion deal opening a door into the enterprise for the second-largest wireless handset maker. |
IEEE Spectrum November 2011 Prachi Patel |
Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima A comparison of three nuclear reactor calamities reveals some key differences |
IEEE Spectrum December 2005 William Sweet |
The Atomic Energy Agency's Peace Prize The conferral in October of the Nobel Peace Prize on the International Atomic Energy Agency and its current director general, Mohamed ElBaradei, is noteworthy on several scores. |
Wired November 2002 Steven Johnson |
Stopping Loose Nukes Prevention is a game of odds, not certainty. Is an "atomic wall" of sophisticated sensors the answer to protecting population centers from terrorist attack by bioweapon or dirty bomb? |
IEEE Spectrum July 2008 Sally Adee |
U.S. Critics Hope to Halt Nuclear-Waste Imports Utah firm wants Italian isotopes |
InternetNews April 29, 2005 Clint Boulton |
Symbol Strikes Over RFID Patents Symbol Technologies has returned legal fire against Intermec Technologies, filing another round of patent infringement suits concerning wireless scanning technologies. |
Fast Company Miles Kohrman |
A Drone Takes You Inside The Ghost Town Abandoned After The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Earlier this week, HEXaMedia, a Tokyo-based company specializing in multicopter aerial video and photography, released a seven-minute video with drone footage of the area. |
Inc. September 1, 2009 Frank Stockton |
My Story: Andrew Gross of Radiation Technical Services How Andrew Gross built Radiation Technical Services, a company that contracts environmental cleanups, twice. |
National Defense June 2008 Stew Magnuson |
Public Still in the Dark When it Comes to Dirty Bomb Threat The federal government has come up short in public information campaigns to educate the public on what to do in the event of a radiation attack |
The Motley Fool March 18, 2011 David Meier |
Foolish FAQ: The Fukushima Nuclear Crisis A nuclear expert sheds light on Japan's failing reactor. |
PC Magazine November 29, 2006 |
DVD Drive Radiation Danger? What the warnings inside of a DVD drive mean. |
AskMen.com |
Your Routine Radiation Dose The radiation risk from a single CT, or computed tomography, to an individual is small, but some doctors are worried about the buildup over time. |