Radiation leak at Russian plant
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Russia reports a radiation leak at a nuclear plant in the Urals, but says that nobody was hurt.
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Seattle scientists studying cancer rates among the victims of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear plant explosion have found the first direct link between thyroid cancer risk and individual radiation exposures.
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Germany police have said they had found &quot;indications&quot; of a source of radioactivity in a flat in Hamburg used by Dmitry Kovtun, a contact of the poisoned former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko.
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PODOLSK, Russia, Aug. 29 -- Heavily guarded trucks rolled up to the Luch nuclear institute here on Tuesday night and unloaded five green reinforced containers holding a total of 21 pounds of uranium, about a third of it highly enriched, which had been quietly removed from a research reactor in...
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Tests were being conducted Monday to find out if anyone else has been contaminated with the radioactive substance that killed ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko.
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The poisoning death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko has turned the world spotlight on polonium. But other potentially deadly radioactive substances are also around us, in smoke detectors and other household, industrial or hospital items.
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Minor traces of radiation have been found at the British Embassy in Moscow, but there was no health risk to the public, a spokesman said Wednesday.
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Police investigating the death of a former Russian spy from suspected radiation poisoning have found levels of radiation in a London sushi bar where he ate just before he became sick, health officials said on Friday.
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German police have found traces of  radiation in two buildings linked to a Russian businessman who  met the murdered ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko on the day he fell  ill, a spokeswoman said on Saturday.
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About 13 pounds of highly enriched uranium was returned to Russia from a research facility in the Czech Republic on Wednesday, the Energy Department announced. The transfer was part of an international program to better secure material that terrorists could use in a nuclear weapon.
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A day after the discovery of radiation on some British Airways jets, more is found at sites around Britain -- and another Kremlin critic is said to have been poisoned
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British scientists probing the death of Alexander Litvinenko said on Friday that two more people had been contaminated with the same radioactive poison that killed the former Russian spy.
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TACOMA, Wash. - A chlorine leak at a waterfront chemical plant injured 12 people who inhaled fumes, and prompted authorities to evacuate the area overnight.  Workers were filling a 1,000-gallon tank with the chemical at Pioneer Americas Inc.
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Passengers on a Finnair flight leaving from Moscow to Helsinki had to wait for about four hours at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport on Saturday as Russian officials took radiation readings in the front of the ...Comment
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A fire on board a Russian nuclear   submarine in the Barents Sea killed two crew members but there   was no threat of a radiation leak, the Defense Ministry said.
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An environmental activist alleged Thursday that highly toxic chemicals had accidentally spilled from weapons being reprocessed at a central Russian plant.
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The number of sites contaminated in the Russian spy radiation poisoning case has doubled to 12 and is likely to rise again, British Home Secretary John Reid said. He disclosed that two more jetliners have been caught up in the scare -- although one was later given a clean bill of health.