BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, September 29. Kyrgyzstan has formally joined the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), marking a significant step in the country’s long-standing commitment to ...

Abstract: We consider the optimal inventory control problem of a periodically reviewed supply chain with perishable goods. The deterioration process is characterized by an unknown decay factor ...

In a story unprecedented in my memory, multiple cargo containers carrying shrimp from Indonesia to U.S. grocers were found contaminated with dangerously radioactive cesium-137 (Cs-137). None of the ...

There was a recent recall of so-called ‘radioactive shrimp’ that were potentially contaminated with cesium-137 (Cs-137). But contamination isn’t an all-or-nothing affair, so you might wonder exactly ...

So what are these magic numbers, and why are they so special? The stability of atomic nuclei varies wildly with the number of nuclear particles they contain. Some, like lead-208 and calcium-40, have ...

The domestic management system for high-level radioactive waste (spent nuclear fuel) will go into full operation. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said on the 16th that the Cabinet approved ...

For all our telescopes and colliders, dark matter has remained an elusive ghost for the better part of a century. It outweighs everything we see by a factor of five, yet it slips past every detector ...