The Nuclear Waste Management Organization has proposed building a nuclear waste repository at a site in northern Ontario. But nearby First Nations say they weren’t consulted.

How risky scientists say BWX Technology’s (BWXT) proposed high-purity depleted uranium (HPDU) facility is to the surrounding land, water, and air, and to the people ...

Cracks in a dome over a contaminated nuclear blast site have sparked fears that the containment area has sprung a dangerous leak — which could snowball amid rising seas.

Landing in hostile territory and quickly extracting Iran’s highly enriched uranium would be next to impossible.

The United Nations' top nuclear watchdog, IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi, told CBS News that Iran still has the technical ability to restart its nuclear program, even though U.S. military strikes ...

A DEP study found that wastewater samples from landfills that take fracking waste were mostly below drinking water guidelines for radioactivity.

Countries are racing to build new reactors. But we've barely figured out how to clean up the old ones — and the bill is ...

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. A $5 million prize awaits proof that quantum computers can ...

Radioactive Emergency was released on Netflix on March 18, 2026. All episodes of the Brazilian miniseries were released ...

Radioactive material supports many activities that improve lives around the world. Only a limited number of specialized facilities produce these materials, so safe and secure tran ...

These methods are how the nuclear industry safely manages the 10,000 metric tons of spent fuel waste that reactors produce as they churn out 10% of the world’s electricity every ...

To produce actinium-227, the isotope used for an FDA-approved cancer treatment, the first step is to bombard targets of the radioisotope radium-226 in ORNL's High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR). The ...