After a year of fastidious planning, a microscopic sample of the ultra-rare radioactive element berkelium arrived at a ...

Septic tank waste disposal systems have a delicate equilibrium that helps to break down solid waste, while releasing effluent ...

As some officials call for limitations on needle exchange programs, advocates say changes would harm public health.

(Image: Sellafield Ltd ... which have been proven in extensive tests to provide both strong shielding and to be safe under extreme conditions." Until 2011 reprocessed waste was sent to the Gorleben ...

Technology to treat produced water has advanced. But critics warn against relaxing protections for disposal “of what is very ...

(D.A. Varela/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images ... nuclear waste storage facility in the Permian Basin, an area rich with oil deposits and limited sources of safe drinking water ...

The steel shell that encloses the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster was built to endure for a century. But war was a ...

The federal government’s investment in an elevated road for safe wildlife passage ... Bharatpur city trucks dump waste in the Barandabhar forest in Chitwan. Image by Rajesh Ghimire.

Seeing the picture a few hours after (via an X-ray diffraction spectrometer image), that was sort of the ... to safeguard all of our civil nuclear waste and all of the isotopes that we have.” ...

These regulations make schools incredibly safe — so safe that fire drills ... “No one really has caught up with that.” While the image of Niles Thompson is hard to shake, we need to analyze ...

Kentucky Republicans are proposing a new office to target government waste, despite having held power ... the people who keep our nuclear stockpile safe are unneeded, as are employees at the ...