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Crypto is 'radioactive waste' for institutional investors until things get resolved, Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary says
Crypto is "radioactive waste" for institutional investors until the SEC crackdown on Binance and Co…
Zinya Salfiti
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Radioactive waste was found at an elementary school playground near a site where nuclear weapons were made in WWII
Jana Elementary School is located near Coldwater Creek, which was contaminated with nuclear waste i…
Kelsey Vlamis
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Fighting near Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant damaged a building housing radioactive waste and fresh fuel, watchdog photos show
IAEA chief Rafael Mariano Grossi said after last week's mission that the "physical integrity of the…
Jake Epstein
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Chernobyl's nuclear fuel is smoldering. To prevent another accident, researchers are studying the site's radioactive lava.
In a lab, scientists recreated the lava produced by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. They hope to fi…
Aria Bendix
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Florida declares state of emergency as reservoir holding millions of gallons of radioactive wastewater 'could collapse' at any time
Residents ordered to evacuate over fears for the pond in the Tampa Bay area, which stores 500 milli…
Sophia Ankel
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Russian missiles struck a radioactive waste disposal site near Kyiv, say Ukrainian authorities
The extent of the radiation cannot be assessed until fighting in the area has ceased, Ukraine's Nuc…
Sophia Ankel
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Russian troops took highly radioactive 'souvenirs' looted from Chernobyl, Ukraine says
Looted Items likely taken by Russia from Chernobyl could cause radiation burns, sickness, and irrev…
Alia Shoaib
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Chernobyl scientists accused looters of stealing radioactive material from labs there
The experts said a small amount of radioactive calibration material and radioactive waste was missi…
Marianne Guenot
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Buried toxic waste from old mining operations could destroy ecosystems as warming thaws the Arctic permafrost
Despite seeming wild and untouched, the Arctic, being rich in mineral resources, has been home to m…
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A 'tomb' in the Marshall Islands contains enough radioactive waste to fill 35 Olympic-sized pools. It's starting to crack.
From 1977 to 1980, around 4,000 US servicemen were tasked with cleaning up the former nuclear testi…
Aria Bendix
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Russian troops seize Chernobyl's remnants after a battle, risking Western efforts to contain one of the world's most radioactive sites
"Russian occupation forces are trying to seize the #Chornobyl_NPP," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Z…
Brent D. Griffiths
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Inside America's most toxic nuclear waste dump, where 56 million gallons of buried radioactive sludge are leaking into the earth
In 1989, after years of dismissing concerns about contamination, the reservation's management final…
James Pasley,James Pasley
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How a US government program advocated using nuclear explosions for construction, farming radioactive crops, and blasting holes in the moon
In the 50s and 60s, the US dreamed up ways to bring nuclear tech into everyday life — like bu…
Marianne Guenot
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Take a look inside the former radioactive-waste site off the coast of San Francisco that's turning into a $5 billion housing development
In 2011, the city of San Francisco approved a proposal to add 8,000 homes, 500 hotel rooms, 300 acr…
Melia Robinson
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Parts of the Marshall Islands are now more radioactive than Chernobyl because of US nuclear tests
After testing for americium-241, the researchers found that certain islands contained much higher l…
Aria Bendix
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Scientists have made artisan vodka from contaminated grain grown in Chernobyl's radioactive exclusion zone
"So we took rye that was slightly contaminated and water from the Chernobyl aquifer and we distille…
Tom Murray
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Now 6 Tanks Are Leaking Radioactive Waste At America's Most Contaminated Site
Last week NPR reported that a single tank at the site — the most contaminated nuclear waste site in…
Michael Kelley
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Russia joins China and South Korea in expressing 'serious concern' at Japan's plan to release waste water from the Fukushima nuclear disaster
Russia wants more information from Japan, spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Tuesday, including an…
Marianne Guenot
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A government task force once had a plan to protect future humans from radioactive waste with genetically engineered cats
In 1981, a group of scientists, philosophers, anthropologists, and other assorted charact…