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Researchers grew crystals containing actinium and illuminated them with X-rays to learn how the radioactive metal binds with other elements. That information could help design better cancer treatments ...

An investigation into solid waste from the gas industry in Pennsylvania found lax oversight, increased radioactivity in frack ...

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Environmentalists urged the Bush administration Thursday not to lift a Clinton-era ban on recycling scrap metals from Department of Energy nuclear facilities. They say allowing the metals to be ...

Whether its lead from old buildings, arsenic from contaminated food or strontium fallout from a nuclear explosion, heavy metals that enter the body pose a serious health threat. With chemical ...

The San Francisco Health Department is sounding the alarm over high levels of radioactive plutonium-239 (Pu-239) detected in the air in Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. Plutonium 239 is a radioactive ...