ST. LOUIS — After years of reporting the radioactive waste in the St. Louis region, we go back to where it all began. The story begins in 1942 in downtown St. Louis. "Back in World War II, there was ...
Nuclear power plants are used primarily to generate electricity, and while they're often thought of as a cleaner energy source, there is a drawback. These power plants produce waste. This waste is ...
The United States is set to begin a cleanup mission of a nuclear waste dump ...
Yellow barrels of radioactive waste lined up on shelves - Onurdongel/Getty Images Nuclear energy isn't as clean as we like to believe. The associated power plants produce small amounts of nuclear ...
London/Washington — The Trump administration's plan to unleash a wave of small futuristic nuclear reactors to power the AI era is falling back on an age-old strategy to dispose of the highly toxic ...
The Department of Energy on Wednesday signed the paperwork needed to allow radioactive waste to be pumped into the Hanford nuclear site’s vitrification plant 23 years after construction began, said ...
In response to the announcement of a waiver of the 1995 Settlement Agreement (which protects the Snake River Plain Aquifer and forbids the import of commercial nuclear waste to Idaho), the Snake River ...
Planet Detroit originally published this story at planetdetroit.org/2026/04/hazardous-waste-landfill-expansion-appeal/. Sign up for Planet Detroit’s weekly newsletter at planetdetroit.org/. By Brian ...
One of the highest-risk components of nuclear waste is iodine-129 (I-129), which stays radioactive for millions of years and accumulates in human thyroids when ingested. In the U.S., nuclear waste ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Department of Energy on Wednesday signed the paperwork needed to allow radioactive waste to be pumped into the Hanford nuclear ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A truck delivers a container to the low-level waste vaults at the Dounreay nuclear site in Dounreay, Scotland, Britain November 25 ...