Uranium produced in St. Louis was used for the secretive Manhattan Project. Leftover waste was dumped around the city.

The Army Corps of Engineers has been cleaning up radioactive contamination near St. Louis since the 1990s, but their efforts ...

The decades-long struggle to find a permanent place to dispose of nuclear waste will continue, probably for many years to ...

Remnants of the chemical processing of radioactive material needed to manufacture nuclear weapons, often called “defense waste,” will eventually be melted along with glass, with the resulting ...

The domestic Electrolux cleaner was used at the Sellafield nuclear plant in Cumbria during the 1950s and 1960s. The post ...

(Courtesy: R Cao) Scientists in the US have developed a new type of photovoltaic battery that runs on the energy given off by nuclear waste. The battery uses a ... Cao says they will need to replace ...

Finland successfully completed the first test of its encapsulation plant, which, if finished, will become the world’s first ...

Idaho and the U.S. Department of Energy have agreed to waive a 1995 nuclear agreement to allow research on spent nuclear fuel ...

Remnants of the chemical processing of radioactive material needed to manufacture nuclear weapons, often called "defense waste," will eventually be melted along with glass, with the resulting ...

It was then shipped to labs across the country for the top secret Manhattan Project that created the first nuclear bomb. The leftover waste was dumped around the city. "That material was in 82 ...