The Semipalatinsk Test Site, also called the Polygon, is lesser known but was used by the Soviet Union to test nuclear ...

Radioactive materials are found naturally in the Earth. But even so, saying an area is radioactive can conjure up images of ...

The U.S. Supreme Court's current term includes cases involving guns, gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors, ...

The nuclear program began here in the 1950s, and about 95,000 metric tons of waste are now in storage, she said ... Accountability Office’s map of sites storing spent nuclear waste in ...

Naoaki Okuzumi, the head of research at Japan’s lead research institute on decommissioning, compares the work ahead to climbing a mountain range - without a map ... waste from inside the nuclear ...

Map of Wolverine's distribution, courtesy of Wolverine Energy Cooperative. Renewed interest in nuclear power comes amid ... through investments in energy storage and energy efficiency, “yet we're ...

The federal government hopes former coal towns will help the nuclear industry grow, by taking on the decades-long challenge ...

Although Chernobyl is the most well known, there are a host of other radioactive places in the world in countries including ...

Despite growing support for nuclear energy nationally ... stockpile of spent nuclear fuel waste, some lawmakers say. House Bill 16, “Used nuclear fuel storage-amendments,” touted by its ...

A trio of Southern California lawmakers are making another effort to pass a federal law that would give priority to removing nuclear waste from ... government opens storage sites where spent ...