But we've barely figured out how to clean up the old ones— and the bill is potentially staggering.Standing in a 1960 s ...
Experts are having a nuclear meltdown. Cracks in a dome over a contaminated nuclear blast site have sparked fears that the ...
How fast does radiation dissipate following a nuclear disaster? There have only been a handful of reactor meltdowns ...
The Runit Dome, aka "The Tomb", soon after it was built in 1980. (Public Domain) A gaping hole was left on a small island in ...
A 1960 explosion involving a nuclear-tipped missile at McGuire Air Force Base left radioactive contamination that required decades of cleanup. Wrightstown, NJ – A Cold War missile accident at what is ...
Stainless steel containers for waste in the low-activity waste facility at the Hanford site. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Department of Energy/Bechtel) Congress this week approved a $3.2 billion budget for ...
Workers at a site in South Carolina that once made key parts for nuclear bombs in the U.S. have found a radioactive wasp nest but officials said there is no danger to anyone.
The staff at Oregon State University College of Engineering has been working on a new type of radiation detection and measurement device that will be particularly useful for cleaning up sites with ...