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Nuclear waste from the Manhattan Project, originally destined for a controversial Van Buren Township landfill, will now be transported to Texas, according to a spokesperson with the U.S. Army Corps of ...
A nuclear technology startup raised $33 million in a private placement to test its system for storing radioactive waste deep underground.
County Executive Warren Evans says the waste will be shipped to another state. He did not say where exactly the shipment will ...
UNLV researchers are on the cutting edge of techniques that can reduce the amount of waste left over from the process of ...
A redesigned carrier for spent nuclear fuel has been implemented at the Savannah River Site (SRS) to accelerate the material’s processing for permanent disposal. This new design resolves a prior issue ...
The Hamblen County Commission is considering approving a new pre-treatment facility for liquid waste in Morristown. The company Grassland Environmental wants to build a ...
If successful, it would become the world’s first nuclear reactor to destroy more long-lived waste than it produces, something no commercial reactor has ever achieved. Stellaria ...
A new study in JAMA shows how proximity to Coldwater Creek, where nuclear waste from the Manhattan Project was improperly stored, affected cancer rates over the decades.
Wikimedia Commons/EPA The 1979 Church Rock Uranium Spill United Nuclear Corporation ran the largest underground uranium mine in the United States at Church Rock, New Mexico. The operation pulled over ...