Scientists have confirmed the existence of a unique phase of water called 'plastic ice VII,' which forms under extreme ...

The radioactive elements are found most abundantly ... In a number of meteorites, the radium content has been determined by Prof. Strutt and the present writer, and if it may be assumed that ...

Without exception, the radium girls were told the paint was safe to handle, and so virtually no precautions were taken while they handled and even ingested countless doses of radioactive poison.

Both radium and radon are radioactive and can cause cancer. Normally, phosphogypsum is disposed of in engineered piles called stacks to limit public exposure to emissions of radon. The stacks can ...

The EPA has long prohibited using phosphogypsum in roads because it contains uranium and radium that produce radionuclides linked ... designed to be the “intermediate” step to approval of the use of ...

Waste that remains in the rock, now called phosphogypsum, includes radionuclide radium — which decays into radon, a radioactive gas. The project is meant to test the environmental impact of its ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency faces a legal challenge after approving a controversial plan to include radioactive waste in a road project late last year. The Center for Biological ...