Nuclear accidents can release large amounts of radionuclides, contaminating the atmosphere, water and soil. To reduce the environmental damage caused by such events it is important to understand the ...

Deep-sea crusts preserved plutonium traces from a rare ancient cosmic event, likely a neutron-star merger, dating back over ...

These examples underscore the reality that our current understanding of the properties of many radionuclides is limited, but also highlight that new experimental techniques to probe the solid-state ...

This publication considers the various international standards to be applied at the national level for the assessment of levels of radionuclides in food and in drinking water in different ...