Author: Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board

The Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management's (EM) mission is the safe cleanup of sites associated with the government-led develo...

The Science of Responding to a Nuclear Reactor Accident summarizes the presentations and discussions of the May 2014 Gilbert W. Beebe Symposium tit...

The United States has deployed commercial nuclear power since the 1950s, and as of 2021, nuclear power accounts for approximately 20 percent of U.S...

The world confronts an existential challenge in responding to climate change, resulting in an urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from a...

The assessment of risk is complex and often controversial. It is derived from the existence of a hazard, and it is characterized by the uncertainty...

It is probably only a matter of time before we witness the next event in which large numbers of people are exposed to ionizing radiation. In the pa...

The United States and the world face serious threats to nuclear stability and peace, now and in the coming decades. Within the nuclear arena, U.S. ...

Exposures at low doses of radiation, generally taken to mean doses below 100 millisieverts, are of primary interest for setting standards for prote...

Passenger screening at commercial airports in the United States has gone through significant changes since the events of September 11, 2001. In res...

The Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management (DOE) is responsible for the safe cleanup of sites used for nuclear weapons developme...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management is responsible for managing and cleaning up the waste and contamination at the H...

The Global Nuclear Detection Architecture (GNDA) is described as a worldwide network of sensors, telecommunications, and personnel, with the suppor...

Most countries in the world use the SI (Système International, also known as the metric system) units for radiation measurements in commercial and ...

One of the pathways by which the scientific community confirms the validity of a new scientific discovery is by repeating the research that produce...

The continued presence of highly enriched uranium (HEU) in civilian installations such as research reactors poses a threat to national and internat...

In 1943, as part of the Manhattan Project, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation was established with the mission to produce plutonium for nuclear weapon...

Radioactive Sources: Applications and Alternative Technologies assesses the status of medical, research, sterilization, and other commercial applic...

This letter is the abbreviated version of an update of the interim report on testing, evaluation, costs, and benefits of advanced spectroscopic por...

The Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management is developing a technology roadmap to guide planning and possible future congressiona...

In 1943, as part of the Manhattan Project, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation was established with the mission to produce plutonium for nuclear weapon...

Fusion energy offers the prospect of addressing the nation's energy needs and contributing to the transition to a low-carbon emission electrical ge...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessor agencies have conducted activities to develop atomic energy for civilian and defense purpos...

The National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2017 contained a request for a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine rev...