RICHLAND, Wash. - The Hanford Site recently completed a transfer of the first batch of radioactive capsules from underwater ...

Darleane C. Hoffman, a trailblazing nuclear chemist who was hailed by Discover magazine as one of the 50 most important women in science and whose research confirmed the existence of several elusive ...

Scientists in Paris discovered two new substances with incredible radioactivity. It earned them the Nobel Prize in Physics but would ultimately kill one of them. When you purchase through links on our ...

Dawn Shaughnessy is the division leader of the Nuclear and Chemical Sciences Division at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. She was a student and colleague of Hoffman for 32 years.

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Nuclear weapons testing has affected every single human on the planet, causing at least four million premature deaths from ...

Lawmakers will consider draft legislation this week that would allow manufacturers of “advanced nuclear reactors” to store high-level radioactive waste at their Wyoming facilities. It would be the ...

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