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More frozen raw shrimp, some of which are sold at Publix, have been recalled by Seattle-based Aquastar Corp. for possible radioactive chemical exposure. In an Oct. 17 notice posted by the U.S. Food ...

More than 85,000 bags of shrimp sold at Kroger-owned grocery stores around the United States are being recalled, adding to the growing list of products flagged over possible radioactive contamination.

Irradiated fuel assemblies—essentially bundles of fuel rods with zirconium alloy cladding sheathing uranium dioxide fuel pellets—that have been removed from a nuclear reactor (spent fuel) generate a ...

Gamma rays can only be detected by sensors made of dense metals and takes over six feet (1.8 meters) of concrete to block. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

In the past decade, sporadic shortages of metals and metalloids crucial to modern technology have inspired attempts to determine the relative “criticality” of various materials as a guide to materials ...

Although the density of an atomic Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC) is typically five orders of magnitude lower than the density of air, the interatomic interactions greatly affect a wide variety of BEC ...