New posts in Radiation

Is it safe to keep uranium ore in my house?

Nuclear beta decay to hydrogen

Do nuclei emit photons?

What exactly does the weak force do?

Fundamentally, why do some nuclei emit ionizing radiation?

Why non-ionizing radiation is non-ionizing?

Radioactive Decay ($dN/dt = - \lambda N$)

*Why* were the Chernobyl control rods tipped with graphite?

Why is the graphite moderator in a nuclear reactor radioactive?

How does an ordinary object become radioactive?