A Navy official recently told the community that it considers recent retesting data reflecting elevated levels of the radioactive isotope Strontium-90 on the development site of the old Hunters Point ...

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.

ARGONNE, Ill. (March 13, 2008) — Strontium 90 is a common radioactive by-product of fission in nuclear power plants. When extracted from the reactor along with other isotopes, a mixture is created ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A massive treatment wall under construction this week at a Western New York nuclear waste cleanup site will stop radioactive contamination in its tracks for literally decades, ...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management is working to reduce the amount of old radioactive material in research sites and facilities in Oak Ridge. According to a release ...

Moments after he landed in Los Angeles for his son’s wedding last year, Gilbert “Kip” Wyand said he vomited a gallon of blood in the airport parking lot. Severe stomach pain, drenching night sweats ...

In the early 1970s operators at the Hanford, Washington, site removed a large fraction of the Cs-137 and Sr-90 from the site’s high-level tank waste in order to reduce the requirements for cooling the ...