When a nuclear disaster empties a landscape of people, nature doesn’t politely wait for instructions. It moves in. After the ...

Rapid DNA tests, x-ray fluorescence guns, and other technologies are being deployed in the fight against wildlife trafficking ...

Embedding non-harmful radioactive isotopes into the horns of rhinos renders them impossible to traffic through seaports and ...

Actinides are a group of heavy, radioactive elements that include uranium, plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium and ...

Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy have "launched a new radiochemical separation process at the Savannah River National Laboratory to recover rare isotopes from Mark-18A targets produced ...

Nuclear waste becomes clean energy as Jefferson Lab's particle accelerators reduce storage time by 99.7% while generating electricity for the grid.

A new map offers a new perspective on the city, revealing the steady, ever-present natural radiation emerging from the ground ...

VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP, Mich. (CBS DETROIT) – Radioactive waste from the creation of the atomic bomb during World War II is coming to Wayne County. In September, thousands of tons of the toxic material ...

The nest was found at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton South Carolina workers discovered a radioactive wasp nest at the site of a facility that used to make nuclear ...

Radioactive wild boar are invading towns in southern Germany. They take out a man in a wheelchair; they break through fences and roam the roads, shutting down highway traffic; they travel in packs ...