Radioactive elements in your local Super Wal-Mart or camping store! It sounds like a bad five o’clock news headline, but gas lamps containing the radioactive element Thorium are extremely common, with ...

The Radiation Safety Office, managed by the Director of Radiation Safety, is responsible for assuring compliance with relevant Federal, State and University regulations and enforces policies ...

In April, when her two St. Bernards died of bone cancer within six days of each other, Sandra Riess tried not to panic. She already knew her property in West Chicago contained higher than usual levels ...

This story was originally published by Borderless Magazine. Sign up for their weekly newsletter to learn the latest about the Midwest’s immigrant communities. Sandra Arzola was relaxing in her West ...

The world's growing need for energy, the limits of our supply of fossil fuels and concern about the effects of carbon emissions on the environment have all prompted interest in the increased use of ...

Several e-mails arrived in my inbox last month touting a thorium-laser-powered atomic car. It produces no emissions and runs 300,000 miles on 8 grams of thorium! By the time I got around to Googling ...

Actually, though, the United States has tried to develop thorium as an energy source for some 50 years and is still struggling to deal with the legacy of those attempts. In addition to the billions of ...

This presentation details our experience with a complicated granuloma of the neck of twenty years' duration treated by radical neck dissection. The encouraging result obtained in this patient and in ...

Millicurie quantities of 14 C do not present a significant external exposure hazard because the low-energy betas emitted barely penetrate the outer skin layer. The critical organ for uptake of many 14 ...

Glossy magazines often contain a substance that has elevated levels of uranium and thorium. This means that reading one for various lengths of time slightly heightens your level of radiation exposure.