Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A map of the areas sampled by analytical chemist Michael Ketterer who released his findings of legacy plutonium waste in Los ...

The province planned to move the mine tailings from Nipissing First Nation to outside Sudbury, Ont., but its lack of ...

The Associated Press story by Tammy Webber about the danger climate change poses for nuclear facilities (“Climate change may leave nuclear sites vulnerable,” May 23) was, frankly, a relief. When the ...

The site will process aging plutonium pits to create new ones, generating hazardous and radioactive waste in the process. Some members of the public and a former citizens' advisory board chair ...

Hands wearing thick safety gloves hold metal tongs holding a container with a molten substance pouring out onto a tray on a counter. Before nuclear waste could be transformed into glass at the Hanford ...

In historic step, radioactive waste moved to massive Hanford treatment plant. DOE aims to produce certified glass canisters by Oct 15, 2025, under court order. Plant will glassify low-activity waste ...

First vitrified Hanford radioactve waste disposed of at site. 30 containers of glassified waste staged as disposal started. DOE says its an important step in Hanford nuclear site cleanup. Richland, ...

Last week U.S. District Judge Mary Lewis Geiger, South Carolina, faulted the Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Agency for ignoring the National Environmental Protection Act and ...

The name Acid Canyon sprung from the nitric acid used to dissolve plutonium waste and was part of the waste dumped into the canyon from 1943 to 1964. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, after ...

This story has been changed to correct an error. Uranium byproduct, not plutonium pits, will be sent to Tennessee. At the Nancy Carson Library in Augusta, Ga., on Oct ...