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A nuclear waste deal between the US and UK is bringing up uncomfortable...
A very unusual exchange is about to take place over the Atlantic. The UK is sending some 700kg of highly enriched uranium to be disposed of in the US, the largest amount that has ever been moved out of...
View ArticleA nuclear waste leak in Washington State just got worse
Radioactive waste has been leaking from a storage tank at Hanford Site — a nuclear waste storage facility in Washington State — since at least 2011. In an effort to fix the problem, the U.S. Department...
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A typo and a bag of kitty litter might cost US taxpayers billions in nuclear...
A typo and a bag of organic kitty litter may end up costing United States taxpayers more than $2 billion in nuclear waste cleanup, according to a new report by Ralph Vartabedian at the Los Angeles...
View ArticleTrump's budget revives a controversial plan to store America's nuclear waste...
In 1987, Nevada's Yucca Mountain was designated as the place to store America's nuclear waste. Millions of dollars went into researching the mountain and developing facilities to hold nuclear waste for...
View ArticleA tunnel full of radioactive waste has caved in at one of the most...
The Hanford nuclear site in Washington state — one of the largest and most contaminated storehouses of radioactive waste in the US — is currently undergoing an emergency.The US Department of Energy...
View ArticleThis swimming robot is exploring a failed nuclear reactor in Fukushima
Toshiba has designed a swimming robot to make its way through deadly radiation in one of Fukushima's flooded and failed reactors. The radiation there is so powerful that a previous robot's camera shut...
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Hurricane Irma may plow into a site full of Cold War-era nuclear waste
Hurricane Irma, or what's left of it, may plow into the continental US over the weekend.There's a chance the damaging winds and heavy rainfall could affect Savannah River Site, a large Cold War-era...
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San Francisco's planned $8 billion neighborhood has a radioactive past, and...
A new report claims that the Navy's cleanup efforts at the site of San Francisco's new $8 billion neighborhood rely on outdated safety standards, equivalent to those used by the EPA in 1991. The...
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The Trump administration plans to reclassify nuclear waste, arguing it could...
The US Department of Energy wants a change in its legal definition of high-level radioactive waste stored at places such as Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state.Reclassifying waste as...
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The US is suing Lockheed and other companies over alleged kickbacks and lying...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has sued Lockheed Martin Corp, Lockheed Martin Services Inc, and Mission Support Alliance LLC, as well as a Lockheed executive for alleged false claims and...
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Fukushima is running out of space to store contaminated water. Japan's...
Eight years after the nuclear disaster at Japan's Fukushima power plant, the facility contains more than 1 million tons of contaminated water.Japan's environment minister recently said the "the only...
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Inside America's most toxic nuclear waste dump, where 56 million gallons of...
Hanford Nuclear Reservation is the most polluted area in the United States. Buried beneath the complex is 56 million gallons of radioactive waste that need to be dealt with. The reservation produced...
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