Some 2,000 gallons of low-level, liquid radioactive waste are set to be shipped from the Hanford Site in Richland next year, and they might be passing through Spokane.

Discovery of radioactive liquid pauses work at U.S. nuclear dump in New Mexico This March 6, 2014, file photo shows the idled Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, the nation’s only underground nuclear ...

When you get a dose of radioactive iodine in liquid capsule form, your thyroid gland absorbs practically all of it. So it can help your doctor tell whether a lump in your neck is thyroid cancer.

The repository was carved out of an ancient salt formation about a half-mile (0.8 kilometer) below the ground because officials say that the shifting salt will eventually entomb the radioactive waste.

The unprecedented truck shipments of high-risk, highly radioactive liquid waste have stoked controversy and concern since the proposal was first revealed four years ago, leading to a federal ...

The discovery of barrels containing a radioactive liquid near a mobile home park in Bellflower caused a scare Tuesday, July 31, but no one had to be evacuated, the Los Angeles County Fire ...

Richland, WA. An underground Hanford tank holding 123,000 gallons of radioactive waste appears to be leaking contaminated liquid into the ground, according to the Department of Energy.

Stock image of an ambulance. FILE - This March 6, 2014 file photo shows the idled Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, the nation's only underground nuclear waste repository, near Carlsbad, N.M. There's ...

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — An area at the U.S. government’s nuclear waste repository in southeastern New Mexico was evacuated over the weekend after workers handling a shipping container ...

Discovery of radioactive liquid pauses work at US nuke dump. MGN. By Associated Press. Published April 11, 2022 11:05 AM . By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ...