Four radioactive wasp nests are causing a buzz at a South Carolina facility tied to nuclear weapons. Thankfully, there’s no ...

According to the official Department of Energy Occurrence Report, the nest was removed, bagged, and disposed of as ...

Scientists are warning that a nuclear bomb plant could be leaking after workers have found three more radioactive wasp nests.

Four wasp nests contaminated with radioactive material have sparked concern that new or old radioactive contamination is ...

A radioactive wasp nest discovered near a nuclear waste tank at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina tested over 10 ...

Straight out of Fallout or maybe Atomfall, employees have to test the plant regularly to check radiation levels to see if ...

3. The Hanford Site Location: Washington, USA This site is now one of the most radioactive places in the world, after it produced around 74 tons of plutonium for the US’s nuclear weapon stockpile.

Radioactive plutonium in ground water, Ketterer noted, can also be absorbed by plants where it enter the food chain via local veggie-eating herbivores, or spread as airborne ash following ...

The plutonium in smoke detectors made in the Soviet Union in the 1960s was so tiny that it weighed just 35 billionths of a gram, but still emitted 0.4 mSv of radiation per second.

Plutonium-239 has a half-life of 24,100 years. Plutonium risks Because plutonium is radioactive, it is difficult to handle and store. Plutonium reacts with carbon, halogens, nitrogen and silicon.

New pools of radioactive water have been detected around Japan's earthquake-damaged Fukushima nuclear complex, officials said Monday, as workers continued racing to contain leaks from the facility.

The hazardous insect abode was located near a set of tanks filled with liquid nuclear waste, although the team didn’t detect ...