Radiation

US to offer incentives to states for nuclear waste storage, building nuclear reactors

The administration of President Donald Trump wants to quadruple US nuclear power capacity to 400 gigawatts by 2050 as electricity demand surges for the first time in decades.

Cooling towers at the former Three Mile Island Nuclear power plant during a tour by Constellation Energy in Londonderry Township, Pennsylvania, US, June 25, 2025
Radiation accelerator at Davidoff Center - Rabin Medical Center.

Israeli hospital's 'groundbreaking' studies could lessen treatments, reduce prostate cancer risks

 US PRESIDENT Joe Biden looks on during a cabinet meeting inside the West Wing of the White House in September. Biden must not continue with the Obama policy of appeasing Iran and turning a blind eye to its terrorist proxies, the writers warn.

Former US President Biden undergoing radiation therapy for cancer, NBC News reports

Measuring the radiation level in the car

The Israeli company that found an effective solution for dangerous radiation in electric vehicles


Apply lacquer gel on your nails? You could be damaging your DNA - study

California researchers found that the use of these UV-emitting devices for just one 20-minute session caused the death of 20% to 30% of cells.

 Researchers at University of California San Diego studied the UV light-emitting devices used to cure gel manicures, and found that the chronic use of these nail polish drying machines is damaging to human cells

Amino acids, building blocks of life, formed in space by gamma rays - study

A fist-of-its-kind study exposed inorganic material to gamma rays and saw them form amino acids. This could have also happened in space.

 Artistic rendition of two short gamma-ray bursts in a collapsing star.

IDF soldiers who work with radar, Iron Dome at risk of cancer - study

The team suggested that IDF soldiers working with Hawk missiles, David’s sling batteries, Iron Dome, Arrow missiles and Patriot batteries could all expose them to excessive radiation. 

 Dividing cancer cell

If Putin uses nuclear weapons, how can we treat radiation poisoning?

A Haifa company named Pluristem has been researching ARS for years and found a way to cope. 

 A geiger counter measures a radiation level at a site of fire burning in the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, outside the village of Rahivka.

NASA's Artemis I Mission set to launch with Israeli radiation experiment

Israel's StemRad vest is being tested onboard NASA's Orion spacecraft in the Artemis I Mission to see if it can protect astronauts from space radiation on future Moon missions.

 Mankin torsos Zohar and Helga will take part in testing Israel's StemRad vests on NASA's Artemis I Mission (Illustrative).

Scientists capture massive cosmic explosion from neutron star merger - study

Gamma-ray bursts are some of the brightest, most energetic and most powerful types of explosions that can occur, releasing as much power as a Sun's lifetime in a few seconds.

 This artist's conception shows the merger between a neutron star and another star (seen as a disk, lower left) which caused an explosion resulting in the short-duration gamma-ray burst, GRB 211106A (white jet, middle).

A third of Russians believe Sun revolves around Earth - survey

One in five Russians believes that humans coexisted with dinosaurs.

 The solar system (Illustrative).

Ukraine War: Russians caused Chernobyl nuclear radiation levels to rise - report

Russian troops entered storage facilities and dug trenches in the irradiated Red Forest leading to radiation that will cause them to experience sickness, state-run nuclear agency Energoatom said.

The remnants of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

Dental developmental anomalies differ in childhood cancer patients - study

Researchers found that combined chemotherapy and radiotherapy indicated an increased risk of DDA.

 12-year-old boy diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma at age 4 years, revealing abnormal occlusal relationships.

Russia-Ukraine war: Chernobyl nuclear plant loses power, leaks imminent - Kuleba

IAEA has been notified. * Germany has no knowledge of radiation leaking. * France in contact with IAEA to assess the situation.

The remnants of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.