Discerning whether a nuclear reactor is being used to also create material for nuclear weapons is difficult, but capturing and analyzing antimatter particles has shown promise for monitoring what ...

Generally, thin window Geiger-Mueller (GM) probes are best suited to detect beta radiation with energies above 70 keV while sodium iodide (NaI) scintillators are best for gamma radiation. For campus ...

Scientists may have found a new way to detect some of the universe's most mysterious objects, primordial black holes (PBHs), using Hawking radiation. This groundbreaking approach relies upon watching ...

While expanding nuclear energy production would provide carbon-free power and can help countries around the world meet their climate goals, nuclear energy could also come with some inherent risk.

South Korea’s national radiation research institute screened 80 North Korean defectors for signs of past radiation exposure ...

Which Geiger counter is best? If you want to monitor radiation levels from a specific source, you need a reliable Geiger ...

Considering what radioactive materials can do to the human body—both in a passive and more explosive form—it’s a good idea to have hyper-sensitive detectors capable of picking up on this material from ...

Ontario defence and aerospace firm to receive $5.5 million from Canadian Space Agency. An Ontario defence and aerospace company has been tasked with developing a tool to detect harmful space radiation ...

Technology provider Thermo Scientific says its Niton-branded hand-held analyzers pair well with its radiation detection offerings. Thermo Scientific calls its RadEye radiation detection product a ...