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

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 ...

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 ...