In an e-mail to MedPage Today and ABC News, Bushberg said that an extra dose of radiation of 40 times the normal background radiation from cosmic rays and geologic sources still would be barely ...

The containers are emitting radiation at a rate of 15 roentgens an hour from a distance of 5 feet--thousands of times higher than normal background radiation.

The cesium-137 inside emits about 2 millisieverts per hour, which is the same dose as 10 medical X-rays or an entire year of normal background radiation at sea level.

Background radiation at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant is normal after a high-voltage electricity line was disconnected, Valery Khitarov, the head of the Russian Federal Medical-Biological ...

The background radiation at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) is normal after Ukraine's drone attack and an overnight fire, ZNPP Spokesperson Yevgeniya Yashina told Rossiya-24 television.