Low Levels of Radioactive Tritium From Minnesota Energy Company May Be Near Mississippi River July 24, 2023 Groundwater containing low levels of radioactive material may have reached the edge of the Mississippi River, the energy company responsible...
Small Nuclear Power Projects May Have Big Waste Problems June 1, 2022 By Timothy Gardner A planned new generation of small nuclear reactors will create more waste than conventional reactors, while treatments to make some...
Wildfire Prompted Evacuations from Idaho Nuclear Energy Lab July 24, 2019 Some employees were evacuated from the Idaho National Laboratory in southeastern Idaho while crews fight a wildfire burning near the...
Nuclear Contamination Found on Worker at New Mexico Weapons Lab June 20, 2018 Reports from an independent safety panel show radioactive contamination was found on a worker’s hands and other places at a...
Safety Concerns Remain at New Mexico Nuclear Waste Storage Site November 29, 2017 By Susan Montoya Bryan A federal nuclear review panel still has some safety concerns about Los Alamos National Laboratory’s new multimillion-dollar storage facility for...
52 Workers at Washington Nuke Facility Checked for Vapor Exposure June 17, 2016 Two more workers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation have received medical evaluations for possible vapor exposure at the former nuclear...
India Joins Nuclear Liability Pact, Opening Door to Foreign Reactor Investments February 5, 2016 By Rajesh Kumar Singh and Stephen Stapczynski India’s decision to join a global treaty on nuclear accident liability may help it woo reactor suppliers, including Westinghouse Electric...
Judge: Sailors Can Sue California Company Over Fukushima Exposure October 30, 2014 By Jacob Adelman U.S. Navy personnel who were exposed to radiation from Japan’s wrecked Fukushima plant during earthquake and tsunami relief efforts in...
No Fukushima Radiation Found in Oregon, Says Group July 30, 2014 A group testing West Coast waters for radiation from a damaged Japanese nuclear power plant says no evidence of contamination...
Washington Nuclear Site Workers Test Thousands Of Air Samples July 11, 2014 By Nicholas K. Geranios About 12,000 air samples taken on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington this year after more than three dozen workers...