Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience. Click here to subscribe today or Login. Living things have absorbed radioactivity from nuke tests of 1950s, 1960s, officials say.

RICHLAND – Hanford nuclear reservation scientists will soon begin using a substance found in bones and teeth to stop radioactive contamination from reaching the Columbia River. After seven years of ...

Hanford moves 1st radioactive capsules from underwater storage. The capsules could break and release radiation in a severe earthquake. Dry storage should be safer and reduces maintenance and ...

MONTPELIER — Another leak of radioactive material has been found and fixed at the troubled Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon, a plant official said. Plant spokesman Larry Smith said late ...