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26-Nov-09

UK plutonium cuts strategy 'in disarray'

"The UK's plan to cut its stockpile of separated plutonium is in "disarray", a group of scientists has warned."

Category: Radiation, Weapons

13-Nov-09

Weapons: Huge rise in birth defects in Falluja

"Doctors in Iraq's war-ravaged enclave of Falluja are dealing with up to 15 times as many chronic deformities in infants and a spike in early life cancers that may be linked to toxic materials left over from the fighting."

Category: Radiation, Weapons

29-Sep-09

Australia 'uranium' dust concerns

"Environmentalists have raised concerns that another giant dust storm blowing its way across eastern Australia may contain radioactive particles."


28-Sep-09

Doctors criticise council sunbeds

"Doctors' leaders have strongly criticised a local authority which has taken more than £83,000 from operating sunbeds in the past five years."

Category: Radiation

16-Sep-09

Shipwreck may hold radioactive waste sunk by mafia off Italian coast

"Italian ministers and officials were today holding urgent consultations following the discovery of an unmarked wreck that prosecutors believe was used by the mafia to sink radioactive waste."


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