Just in time for the weekend, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) proposed an $8,500 fine to Idaho State…
A new and unexpected source of radioactive material left over from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster has been found…
For six years, an underground garbage fire has been steadily burning outside of Saint Louis, Missouri, right next to a…
Last week, a leak in a storage tank at the country’s largest radioactive dumpsite expanded substantially, sparking…
Earlier this week, we heard alarming reports of a “significant” nuclear waste leak at Hanford, the largest radioactive…
A drum full of radioactive waste exploded at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico last February, sparking…
In February, a drum of radioactive waste exploded at U.S.'s only underground nuclear waste repository. The Santa Fe New…
America has currently no plan for its nuclear waste. It did, however, at one point, have a supremely ambitious plan…
Symbols change meaning over time, so how do you set up a warning system to warn people off of living near nuclear…
Yesterday, we enjoyed The New Yorker's engrossing interactive look at the strange history of NYC's most radioactive…
Like so many NYC businesses, Primo Flat Fix occupies a nearly 100-year-old building. But this Queens, garage sits on a…
A quadcopter outfitted with an on-board 3D printer could be used to seal off and transport nuclear waste, or even to…
A dumping ground for nuclear waste located near the British coast is "virtually certain" to be washed away by rising…
Nearly 2,000 capsules containing radioactive waste at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation need to be relocated. That's…
Organized crime is famously good at exploiting time-sensitive industries like construction, fishing, and—of…
First, dig a hole. Then, reinforce it with clay, concrete, steel, and plastic. Fill it with nuclear waste and cover it…
Nuclear power is great, but the waste it creates is a problem. Best case scenario we can turn it into more power in the…
The wonders of graphene never seem to cease. Desalinization, flexible semiconductors, and now nuclear waste clean-up.…
You've probably heard of necrotizing fasciitis, also known as flesh-eating bacteria. But bacteria do not actually eat…
Last march when the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant was disastrously damaged by a tsunami, plant technicians used…
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