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 ...

How to secure radioactive waste repositories? When dumping radioactive barrels into the seas was prohibited, inactive mines ...

How to secure radioactive waste repositories? When radioactive barrels were prohibited from being dumped into the seas, ...

The problem of how to safely store radioactive waste from nuclear power plants has been one of the most formidable environmental challenges of recent decades. While nuclear power is a reliable ...

It wound through their backyards, near baseball fields, schools and cemeteries — and past lots where leaking barrels and open-air dumps of nuclear waste leeched into its waters. "It was shocking ...

Fast neutron reactors can increase efficiency of nuclear energy and shrink the environmental footprint of radioactive waste. Several countries are looking to these innovative reactors to help ensure a ...

Uses of this device include increasing security of nuclear waste barrels in transit to a disposal site. In the event of an incorrect input, a fail-safe is triggered, which prevents further operation ...