At first thought to hold the pesticide DDT, some mysterious barrels dumped in the deep sea near Los Angeles actually contain ...

Disposing of nuclear waste in deep underground geological formations is currently considered the safest long-term solution for managing high-level radioactive waste.

The United States, Soviet Union, Britain, France and China all scrambled to develop ever more powerful nuclear weapons ...

The 12 On Your Side investigators are digging deeper after the U.S. Department of Energy confirms the discovery of four ...

Feedback remembers Godzilla, and feels a little nervous about the wasp nest found at an old nuclear weapons site in South ...

The Guardian reported that current legislation "designates HMAS Stirling off Perth and the Osborne naval shipyard in Adelaide" as a storage site for low- and intermediate-level waste, but the law also ...

Simply stated, nuclear or radioactive waste is the byproduct of nuclear reactors, fuel processing and reprocessing, weapon production, medical facilities, and research laboratories.

Alyssa McClanahan’s book spotlights the efforts of activists, politicians and neighbors that canceled the Zimmer nuclear ...

Missouri lawmakers formed a new committee to document the effects of radioactive waste in the St. Louis region and other Missouri sites and to search for policy solutions.

Despite more than 50 years of research on the safety of geological disposal of radioactive waste, the research community has not achieved a clear understanding of repository safety. Scientists and ...

Missouri lawmakers will convene a special committee to study the consequences of nuclear weapons production in the St. Louis area.