"Red Zones" have been cleared as safe. Officials launch major effort at radioactive waste site: 'We will continue monitoring' ...

Former government officials say the state isn’t doing enough to regulate fracking waste, even as new research shows it’s far ...

The only permanent nuclear waste storage site in the country, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, has federal approval to add two new underground storage areas. The Waste Isolation Pilot ...

Drums of highly toxic radioactive transuranic wastes set inside a salt cavern at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad New Mexico March 20 2006. WIPP chief scientist Roger Nelson oversees the ...

The Department of Energy Tuesday announced incentive payments of $89 million to five contractors working at the Hanford ...

The Tokyo Electric Power Company, Tepco, has said that two specially designed and newly installed robots will need three years to remove 3,000 sandbags from the basements of the three destroyed ...

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ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, Ill. — The Joint Munitions Command serves as the provider for low-level radioactive waste and low-level mixed waste disposition for the Department of Defense and other federal ...

A growing number of countries are planning a permanent solution to the issue of radioactive waste by burying it deep ...

FLORISSANT, Mo. — Federal officials may soon offer buyouts to six homeowners in a Florissant subdivision amid possible radioactive contamination, the city confirmed to 5 On Your Side on Wednesday.

Researchers at The Ohio State University have developed a battery that can convert nuclear waste into electricity. This innovative technology utilizes ambient gamma radiation from spent nuclear fuel ...

Croatia's parliament passed a law enabling construction of a radioactive waste facility near the Bosnian border. The site will store waste from the Krško Nuclear Power Plant and Croatian medical ...