A team of 21 European scientists is searching for barrels of nuclear waste in the Northeast Atlantic as part of the NODSSUM project. The barrels are likely lying at depths of 3,000 to 5,000 meters.

An international effort aims to assess the environmental impact of nuclear waste dumped in the ocean over half a century ago.

Fundamentally, we are not addressing the harms of nuclear weapons, which keep growing. Spending on “modernizing” the nuclear ...

Scientists from various disciplines are spending a month at sea to locate these barrels, which were submerged between 1950 and 1990, and to assess their impact on marine biodiversity.

In this April 9, 2019, file photo, barrels of radioactive waste are loaded for transport to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, marking the first transuranic waste loading operations in five years at the ...

Nuclear waste haunts Missouri community, but cleanup is far from over 03:42. ... that is to say dumped, in the open or put in barrels that rusted." Eventually, Morice's mother, ...

The resurgence of nuclear energy, driven by microreactor technology and AI's power demands, faces a major challenge: the significant increase in nuclear waste.

Nuclear waste is spread across 94 different nuclear sites in the U.S. and has no permanent home. Big Tech is going to add more to the pile.

Waste from these is stored in steel barrels in nearby warehouses. Brazil plans to open a new facility in 2029 that will be an active radioactive waste repository for 60 years before being sealed ...

This story is part one of a two-part series that examines the effects of nuclear waste contamination in Coldwater Creek on the surrounding community in St. Louis, Missouri. Part two aired ...