This July marked 80 years since the U.S. government detonated the first atomic bomb in the desert of southern New Mexico, ...

The testing process, called “hot commissioning,” will introduce radioactive waste to the plant for the first time and verify ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began tearing down buildings, ripping up foundations, digging out soil and pumping out ...

From 1975: More than 4,000 gallons of radioactive waste leaked from a Hanford storage tank – the 19th such leak to occur. The waste “seeped through the bottom or sides of the steel-lined ...

The waste is left from chemically processing uranium fuel irradiated in Hanford reactors to produce nearly two-thirds of the plutonium for the nation’s nuclear waste from World War II through ...

The waste is left from production of nearly two-thirds of the plutonium for the nation’s nuclear weapons program from World War II through the Cold War. Until now, just three gallons of 56 ...

The post 1960s vacuum found in radioactive waste at nuclear plant appeared first on Talker. The 1960s Electrolux vacuum cleaner. (Sellafield Ltd via SWN) The Pile Fuel Cladding silo.

The waste is left from production of nearly two-thirds of the plutonium for the nation’s nuclear weapons program from World War II through the Cold War. Until now, just three gallons of 56 ...

A new study in JAMA shows how proximity to Coldwater Creek, where nuclear waste from the Manhattan Project was improperly ...