Uranium produced in St. Louis was used for the secretive Manhattan Project. Leftover waste was dumped around the city.

The Army Corps of Engineers has been cleaning up radioactive contamination near St. Louis since the 1990s, but their efforts ...

The decades-long struggle to find a permanent place to dispose of nuclear waste will continue, probably for many years to ...

Remnants of the chemical processing of radioactive material needed to manufacture nuclear weapons, often called “defense waste,” will eventually be melted along with glass, with the resulting ...

Officials with the state of Idaho and the U.S. Department of Energy have agreed to a waiver of the state’s 1995 nuclear waste ...

Operators at one of the world’s oldest and most inaccessible nuclear storage facilities were stunned to discover a ...

(Courtesy: R Cao) Scientists in the US have developed a new type of photovoltaic battery that runs on the energy given off by nuclear waste. The battery uses a ... Cao says they will need to replace ...

Finland successfully completed the first test of its encapsulation plant, which, if finished, will become the world’s first ...

The first container has been filled with long-lived low- and intermediate-level waste from the used fuel pools of unit 3 at ...

Advertisement Remnants of the chemical processing of radioactive material needed to manufacture nuclear weapons, often called “defense waste,” will eventually be melted along with glass ...