Some of the most toxic nuclear waste in the world is stored in dozens of huge tanks first installed in the 1950s at the Savannah River Site atomic weapons complex near Aiken. Radioactive wasp nests ...

Children who lived near a St. Louis creek polluted with radioactive atomic bomb waste from the 1940s through the 1960s were more likely to be diagnosed with cancer over their lifetimes than children ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Twenty-three years and 70 days after workers began pouring concrete to build the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant, the plant has ...

KENNEWICK – The deadline to glassify the first of the Hanford nuclear site’s 56 million gallons of radioactive waste will be extended under an agreement filed in federal court. Work to build the ...

Congress asked the National Academies to evaluate the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) plans for retrieval and on-site disposal of certain types of radioactive wastes stored in almost 250 underground ...

How do you feel about radioactive waste in your backyard? Well, last year, by cloak of darkness, Wayne Disposal, Inc. (WDI), a hazardous waste landfill located in Belleville, had planned to accept ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Department of Energy will take more time to make a potentially controversial decision on where radioactive liquid waste from ...

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 ...

DETROIT, MI — A state judge has blocked a controversial Republic Services landfill in Wayne County from receiving new shipments of radioactive waste. Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Kevin Cox signed ...

DOE starts vitrification at Hanford, converting tank waste into durable glass. Plant produced glass that meets disposal standards for lined landfill burial. Vitrification frees double-shell tank space ...

The Department of Energy will take more time to make a potentially controversial decision on where radioactive liquid waste from the Hanford nuclear site's underground tanks will be turned into a ...