Radioactive materials are found naturally in the Earth. But even so, saying an area is radioactive can conjure up images of ...

After an apparent drone strike blew a hole in the protective shell, there is an urgent need to patch what covers the wreckage ...

The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has laid off about 1,200 to 2,000 workers at the Department of Energy, ...

Ukraine’s nuclear ghosts were raised again on Friday after a drone armed with a warhead hit the protective outer shell of the ...

The Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, where Ukraine accused Russia of striking a radiation containment structure on Friday, is a ...

The U.S. Air Force unit and its deadly missions in World War II are also the subject of a new Apple TV+ documentary.

The Semipalatinsk Test Site, also called the Polygon, is lesser known but was used by the Soviet Union to test nuclear ...

President Donald Trump's new Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, former CEO of the fracking company Liberty Energy, on Friday issued his first Secretarial Order which directs the Department of Energy t ...

More than 35 years after a Tri-Party Agreement was forged to promote cleanup at Eastern Washington’s Hanford site, the people ...

Today, an estimated 56 million gallons of radioactive waste remains at Hanford, much of it in storage tanks that are known to be leaking. Considering that the site sits near the Columbia River, about ...