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Regulators issuing draft report on Nevada nuclear dump plan
LAS VEGAS - A key study in a series leading to licensing hearings for the long-stalled Yucca Mountain national nuclear waste dump in Nevada finds what the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is calling a...
View ArticleTexas A&M locates unopened package with radioactive item
COLLEGE STATION, Texas - Texas A&M University has located a box containing radioactive research material after the FedEx package was missing since last month.
View ArticleRegulators halt study of cancer risks at 7 nuclear plants
HARTFORD, Connecticut - Federal regulators are pulling the plug on a five-year study of the risk of cancer in communities around six U.S. nuclear plants and a nuclear fuel site.
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Debate resumes in Las Vegas about Nevada nuclear dump idea
LAS VEGAS - The debate resumed Tuesday in Nevada about the possibility of radioactive contamination of the underground water supply from a proposed national nuclear waste repository in the desert near...
View ArticleStudy: Mammals thrive in Chernobyl exclusion zone
MOSCOW - Nearly 30 years after a nuclear reactor caught fire and spewed a lethal cloud of radiation, some species of mammals are thriving in the zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, a new...
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Researcher: Children's cancer linked to Fukushima radiation
TOKYO - A new study says children living near the Fukushima nuclear meltdowns have been diagnosed with thyroid cancer at a rate 20 to 50 times that of children elsewhere, a difference the authors...
View ArticleVirginia lab to compete for bid to build atomic collider
NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia - The Nuclear Science Advisory Committee in Washington has recommended the construction of an atomic collider, and now the Virginia's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator...
View ArticleFeds cancel research shipment of spent nuclear fuel to Idaho
BOISE, Idaho - Federal authorities have canceled the first of two proposed research shipments of spent nuclear fuel to eastern Idaho but still hope to deliver the second.
View ArticleFailed Idaho nuclear waste deal snagged on treatment plant
BOISE, Idaho - Federal officials offered to remove twice the amount of high-level nuclear waste they proposed to send for research to an eastern Idaho nuclear facility in a deal with state officials...
View ArticleEnvironmental group questions Pennsylvania drilling study
BRISTOL, Pennsylvania - An environmental group is questioning a Pennsylvania regulator's finding that radiation levels in oil and gas industry wastewater and byproducts pose little threat.
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'Millennium physicist' ready to take helm at nuclear center
GENEVA - Fabiola Gianotti, who this week takes the helm at CERN, home to world's largest particle accelerator, is seen as a new breed of scientist. Initially trained in arts and literature, she came to...
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Japanese research institute earns right to name element 113
TOKYO - A team of Japanese scientists have met the criteria for naming a new element, the synthetic highly radioactive element 113, more than a dozen years after they began working to create it.
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Scientists in Germany switch on nuclear fusion experiment
GREIFSWALD, Germany - Scientists in Germany flipped the switch Wednesday on an experiment they hope will advance the quest for nuclear fusion, considered a clean and safe form of nuclear power.
View ArticleHanford and WSU aid in stunning achievement
SPOKANE, Washington - The stunning announcement that scientists have finally detected gravitational waves, the ripples in the fabric of space-time that Einstein predicted a century ago, shined a light...
View ArticleMiami-Dade study finds link in bay to Turkey Point canals
MIAMI - A Miami-Dade County study in Biscayne Bay found high levels of a radioactive isotope linked to water from canals at Florida Power & Light's Turkey Point power plant.
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NKorea to liquidate SKorean assets, fires missiles into sea
SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea responded to South Korean unilateral sanctions Thursday by firing short-range ballistic missiles into the sea in a show of defiance and vowing to "liquidate" all...
View ArticleFlorida Keys test aquifer for radioactive substances
KEY WEST, Florida - The Florida Keys Aqueduct Authority is testing for radioactive substances in the aquifer that acts as the island chain's main drinking water supply.
View ArticleReport details cause of 2014 radiation leak at national lab
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - Compromised equipment caused a radiation leak at the Idaho National Laboratory two years ago and faulty air monitors failed to detect the release that exposed nine workers, a new...
View ArticleArmy inducts nuclear physicist into a new hall of fame
ABERDEEN, Maryland - The Army is honoring a nuclear physicist who figured out how to measure radiation in the environment after a nuclear explosion.
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Japan prepares for release of tritium from Fukushima plant
TOKYO - To dump or not to dump a little-discussed substance is the question brewing in Japan as it grapples with the aftermath of the nuclear catastrophe in Fukushima five years ago. The substance is...
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