radiation

People white lab covers and blue masks use lab equipment.

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory studies help better understand space

Courtney Flatt

An experiment is helping scientists better understand the effects of space radiation on astronauts and space shuttles that are constantly bombarded by radiation.

Environment

Traces Of Fukushima Radioactivity Detected In West Coast Waters

Tom Banse

An oceanography institute announced Monday that trace amounts of radioactivity from Japan have been detected off the West Coast.Radiation experts say the…

The Bell Helicopter that will perform the aerial survey has radiation detection equipment located in the capsules attached to its sides.

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Baseline radiation mapping beginning in Seattle and Bellevue

Bellamy Pailthorp

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/kplu/local-kplu-976912.mp3If you see an unusually low-flying helicopter cruising above Seattle or…

Environment

Washington milk is safe

Dave Meyer

Worried about radiation from Japan contaminating milk here at home? The Washington state departments of Agriculture and Health say the latest tests show…

An alfalfa field near Richland, Wash., Mar. 30, 2011.

Environment

Northwest very familiar with Iodine-131

Anna King

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/kplu/local-kplu-961351.mp3The small amounts of radioactive Iodine-131 found in milk in Spokane has…