A 1960 explosion involving a nuclear-tipped missile at McGuire Air Force Base left radioactive contamination that required decades of cleanup. Wrightstown, NJ – A Cold War missile accident at what is ...

State Officials Warn of Growing Hazard Near Former Nuclear Lab as Cleanup Delays Continue ...

State regulators said that years of missed cleanup deadlines for the toxic by-products from the Cold War era are increasing the risks of nuclear contamination. With the recent expiration of the ...

Stainless steel containers for waste in the low-activity waste facility at the Hanford site. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Department of Energy/Bechtel) Congress this week approved a $3.2 billion budget for ...

Sunflowers can remove toxic metals and radioactive elements from soil through phytoremediation, a plant-based cleanup process used after disasters like Chernobyl and Fukushima to reduce environmental ...

The Department of Energy is looking at a way to speed up Hanford nuclear site environmental cleanup by having some waste with low radioactive contamination from the vitrification plant turned into ...

Radioactive contamination traced to Cold War-era nuclear waste has been found in residential yards near Coldwater Creek in St ...

The concrete stack stood 175 feet tall, much shorter than when the reactor was irradiating fuel to produce plutonium.

A group of environmental activists and residents of San Francisco's Bayview and Hunters Point neighborhood rallied outside of ...

A Cold War nuclear waste site in the Pacific is cracking under climate pressure, raising fears of radioactive leaks.

Former residents of Robert Township gather at Robertson M.B. Church in September for a Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) informational meeting. Photo courtesy of former state Sen. Maria ...