Radioactive

Liver cancer patients are being spared overnight hospital stays and a painful recovery thanks to a procedure that injects tumour-fighting beads through the wrist.The beads – called microspheres – kill cancer cells by lodging in blood…

Japan is moving closer to releasing treated radioactive water into the sea, despite opposition. The head of a South Korean team of experts said Wednesday they saw all of the facilities they had requested to visit at Japan’s…

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Unoversaw tests of weapons designed to deliver nuclear strikes against the US and its allies, including one his regime billed as a new underwater drone that can create a “radioactive tsunami.”The tests from…

Bangkok, Thailand CNN  —  Authorities in Thailand are scrambling to locate a metal cylinder with dangerous radioactive contents that went missing from a power plant this week,…

<!-- -->The tiny radioactive capsule had fallen off a truck.Sydney: The task was daunting: find a tiny radioactive capsule that had fallen off a truck somewhere in Western Australia's vast outback sometime in January. It was described…

Brisbane, Australia CNN  —  The discovery of a tiny lost radioactive capsule beside a remote highway in Western Australia raises many questions – not least how it escaped layers…

<!-- -->The capsule disappeared from a truck (Picture credit: AFP)A 'highly radioactive' capsule lost somewhere along a 1,400-kilometre highway through the Western Australian desert has been found, authorities said on Wednesday. The…

Authorities in Western Australia on Wednesday recovered a tiny but dangerous radioactive capsule that fell off a truck while being transported along a 1,400-kilometre highway last month in what an official said was like finding a needle in…

SYDNEY: Authorities in Australia will review laws that penalise the mishandling of radioactive material with a A$1,000 (US$707) fine as a search for a hazardous capsule lost in the Outback enters a seventh day. Officials from Western…

SYDNEY: Australian authorities are mounting an extensive search for a tiny radioactive capsule believed to have fallen out of a road train - a truck with multiple trailers - that travelled 1,400km in Western Australia. Here's what you need…