Plans set to allow the Hanford "glassification" project in Washington state to treat and store nuclear waste appear ready to move forward, after previous reports that the federal Department of Energy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WEHT) — The process of cleaning up the radioactive gas, Radon, is set to begin at the Old Vanderburgh County ...

~ Cleanup has cost the university more than $1.29 million. Radiation contamination continues to plague Southeast Missouri State University's Magill Hall of Science. A contractor began work this week ...

Managing radioactive waste is one of the core challenges in the use of nuclear energy. In particular, radioactive iodine poses serious environmental and health risks due to its long half-life (15.7 ...

The operators of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan demonstrated a new robot to help clean up melted fuel debris on Tuesday, according to a report from the Associated Press. The robot ...

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For years, St. Louis residents and advocates have been phoning and pressuring their congressmen to take legislative action to clean up the West Lake Landfill, where wastes from 1940s atomic bomb ...