We receive internal exposure from radioactive elements which we take into our bodies through food and water, and through the air we breathe. In addition, we have radioactive elements (Potassium 40, ...

Mixed with the right kind of paint, radium would luminesce after exposure to light, so that a watch face painted with the stuff could soak up energy during the day and stay visible all night long.

During the 1950s and 1960s, I remember the government-conducted Civil Defense drills in my school. We were told to climb under our school desks, duck down and cover our heads. We might have survived a ...

The wonder of Radium, a glowing treasure discovered by Marie Curie, blinded the world to its perils... and it quickly became ...

So, radium comes from uranium ... "The longer the period and the higher the exposure then the more likelihood of causing cancer," said Wheat. Which is why Brent Wheat, the Environmental Health ...

Evergy officials, Henry County commissioners and Missouri state leaders hosted a town hall on Monday night to address concerns about hazardous chemicals.

The Ottawa Historical and Scouting Heritage Museum has a permanent exhibit dedicated to the young women who used radium paint ...

2). Over a period of twenty months this has ranged from less than 1 up to 31 mr. Of the 4 persons with an average weekly exposure above 20 mr, 2 were radium workers, 1 was a dental technician ...

In the early 20th century, the world went ‘raving mad on the subject of radium’, according to George Bernard Shaw. The newly ...