Radioactive decay (also known as nuclear decay, radioactivity, radioactive disintegration or nuclear disintegration) is the process by which an unstable atomic nucleus loses energy by radiation. A ...

The IAEA's Nuclear Security Series provides international consensus guidance on all aspects of nuclear security to support States as they work to fulfil their responsibility for nuclear security. The ...

It also means that the process of radioactive decay cannot be speeded up or slowed down by any physical changes such as a change of temperature or pressure. A random process means that scientists ...

AFTER the exponential law in radioactive decay had been discovered in 1902, it soon became clear that the time of disintegration of an atom was independent of the previous history of the atom and ...

The IAEA provides fundamental nuclear data for energy and non-energy applications, as well as atomic data for fusion energy research. Nuclear structure and decay data describe the lifetimes and decay ...

Radioactive decay is a spontaneous and random process. A block of radioactive material will contain many trillions of nuclei and not all nuclei are likely to decay at the same time so it is ...

One key lesson many states are drawing from the Russia-Ukraine war is that a nuclear-armed Ukraine would have been better off ...

branch in one of the three main radioactive decay series. Her analysis of the data revealed a new element with a half-life of 21 minutes. When she was later asked to name the element she chose ...

Most countries have a series of government-run stations set ... are evidence of a faulty detector or network setup, as radioactive decay is one of the more random forces in the universe.

The battery developed by the research team at China’s Soochow University harnesses the energy of radioactive decay, a process ...

Researchers at the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have successfully synthesized a ...