WASHINGTON, March 11, 2015 -- Attendees at the 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST '15) will have the opportunity to see a new hands-free portable ...

Eleven patients have already been treated since the island’s new radiation therapy facility was officially opened last month. Another 30 have embarked on their radiation treatment pathway with Bermuda ...

What do the Curie couple, Henrie Becquerel, Louis Harold Gray, and Ralf Sievert have in common? These radiation pioneers defined the way we measure ionizing radiation. Pierre and Marie Curie created ...

Ellen Anderson is the director of radiation safety and international liaison in occupational radiation protection for the Nuclear Energy Institute. She has more than 35 years of experience in ...

There are many factors to consider when saying “radioactivity is hazardous.” Here is an attempt to summarize them in five points. Radiation is not an age-old reality; in fact, the discovery of ...

As noted in Theme 2 in the previous chapter, SI units for radiation measurements are finding increasing use in the United States. Many workshop participants said that the exclusive use of SI units is ...