Nuclear waste is largely misunderstood, thanks to the Cold War and war movies. However, even if nuclear energy is safer than ...

In the middle of the Pacific, a concrete dome the size of a football field holds the toxic legacy of Cold War nuclear testing ...

The heat produced by the radioactive waste strikes you when you enter the storage site of Ontario Power Generation at the ...

As much as $589 billion will be needed to finish environmental cleanup and some monitoring at the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington, but there is some good news there. Three years ago, the ...

Parks Township residents are concerned, even skeptical, that government contractors can remove 33,000 cubic yards of nuclear waste, package it and ship it to Utah without harming their community. Army ...

More than 20 containers of radioactive zinc stranded in Manila Bay for months have been brought ashore to a “safe place,” the ...

In the USA, confectionary distribution company Candy Dynamics has been left with a sour taste in its mouth after it issued a voluntary recall of one its Toxic Waste brands on 13 January. The Nuclear ...

SEATTLE (AP) — For much of the 20th century, a sprawling complex in the desert of southeastern Washington state turned out most of the plutonium used in the nation’s nuclear arsenal, from the first ...

BOISE — A lengthy project to dig up and remove radioactive and hazardous waste buried for decades in unlined pits at a nuclear facility that sits atop a giant aquifer in eastern Idaho is nearly ...

Unlike burning fossil fuels, nuclear power plants release very few greenhouse gases. They’re safer than they’ve ever been, and currently generate around a fifth of the U.S.’s electricity. However, ...

"By adopting this technology, the … project expands the siting possibilities for nuclear facilities and provides new ...