A map of the areas sampled by analytical chemist Michael Ketterer who released his findings of legacy plutonium waste in Los Alamos' Acid Canyon. (Courtesy of Michael Ketterer) Los Alamos, the Atomic ...

There might be an unexpected ingredient in your glass of California red wine. If your bottle of choice was made after 2011, it could have small amounts of radioactive particles from a major nuclear ...

Radioactive nuclear fallout can contaminate the food chain poisoning any produce it touches and the animals that eat it.cyano66 / Getty Images Fallout — radioactive material from a nuclear explosion — ...

The Washington State Department of Health has sent a strongly worded letter of concern to the U.S. Energy Department about elevated readings of radioactive contamination that state monitoring has ...

To accelerate waste cleanup at the Hanford site, DOE awarded Argonne $3.9 million to pursue scientific breakthroughs in plutonium chemistry DOE/Argonne National Laboratory Argonne researchers are ...

Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this report stated this was the first time a worker who had inhaled plutonium was speaking publicly. Since then, we have learned that the Seattle Times spoke with ...

DENVER – A retired professor testified Tuesday he found evidence that billions of particles of plutonium had escaped from a former nuclear weapons plant in Colorado and settled on land that is now a ...

KENNEWICK – The two workers who took the brunt of contamination during a release of radioactivity in a 2021 incident within the Northwest’s only commercial nuclear power reactor have sued Energy ...

Nuclear weapons tests are among the most violent events humans can trigger, and that violence leaves fingerprints in the ...

Specks of radioactive contamination have been found on eight cars or other vehicles that were parked at the Hanford nuclear reservation’s Plutonium Finishing Plant. Two of the vehicles may have been ...