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U.S. Senator Patty Murray has expressed strong opposition to reported layoffs of federal workers in Washington state.

The National Nuclear Security Administration is a semi-autonomous agency within the Department of Energy that oversees the ...

Although Chernobyl is the most well known, there are a host of other radioactive places in the world in countries including ...

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

The federal government hopes former coal towns will help the nuclear industry grow, by taking on the decades-long challenge ...

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 ...

To maintain American digital dominance, the United States will have to turn to nuclear power to fuel the data centers of the ...

It’s been more than 30 years since there were any discussions of storing nuclear waste in Colorado. Before revisiting that debate, it is important to understand the three major waste ...

With this discovery, waste management sites can enhance cleanup technology and reduce contamination risks. Scientists make ...