WASHINGTON, March 11, 2015 -- Attendees at the 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST '15) will have the opportunity to see a new hands-free portable ...

The story of ionizing radiation and radioactivity, and their units, has its origins in the late 1890s, with W. C. Röntgen’s discovery of X-rays (1895), H. Becquerel’s observation of uranium salts ...

Ellen Anderson is the director of radiation safety and international liaison in occupational radiation protection for the Nuclear Energy Institute. She has more than 35 years of experience in ...

What do the Curie couple, Henrie Becquerel, Louis Harold Gray, and Ralf Sievert have in common? These radiation pioneers defined the way we measure ionizing radiation. Pierre and Marie Curie created ...

There are many factors to consider when saying “radioactivity is hazardous.” Here is an attempt to summarize them in five points. Radiation is not an age-old reality; in fact, the discovery of ...

As noted in Theme 2 in the previous chapter, SI units for radiation measurements are finding increasing use in the United States. Many workshop participants said that the exclusive use of SI units is ...