Much has been learned by studying the health records of the survivors of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We know from these that some of the health effects of exposure to radiation do not ...

The imaging tool used to diagnose bone injuries, cancer and other diseases may expose patients to unnecessarily high ...

Mayor of Hiroshima Kazumi Matsui makes a point ... you still have the effects of radiation. So it is like you are living but you are living in hell,” he continued. “They don’t know if ...

Containing radiation equivalent to 14,000 times the amount released in the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima 68 years ago, more than 1,300 used fuel rod assemblies packed tightly together need to be ...

Below: Hiroshima, Japan, August 1945 ... the blast and ionizing radiation impacts of nuclear weapons would be catastrophic, the thermal radiation and fire effects could be truly existential if enough ...

Second-generation victims in Hiroshima and Nagasaki have filed ... remembers they were always worried about what possible effects the radiation could have on her. Kadokawa said she feels torn ...

The Hiroshima bomb was intentionally set to ... Exact casualty and population numbers cannot be known, but the U.S.-Japanese Radiation Effects Research Foundation gives a range of 90,000 to ...

American atomic bombs devastated the western city of Hiroshima ... effects of Oppenheimer's testing in an op-ed for USA TODAY in August. "As a child in Salt Lake City, my thyroid absorbed this ...

and both Hiroshima and Nagasaki have seen elevated cancer rates. Of the 50,000 radiation victims from both cities studied by the Japanese-US Radiation Effects Research Foundation, about 100 died ...

HIROSHIMA--Having survived the atomic bomb ... of major birth defects in children of survivors, according to the Radiation Effects Research Foundation, a Japan-U.S. research organization.

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Will getting two or three CT scans of the abdomen expose a person to the same amount of radiation as people who lived not far from the epicenter of the 1945 Hiroshima atomic ...