By Giles Harrison, University of Reading It’s difficult to imagine quite how alarming it would have been for the world’s meteorologists monitoring the atmosphere during the nuclear tests in the 1950s and early ’60s. The radioactivity released in the Arctic and South Pacific test sites…
By Mayukh Saha As the new decade begins, scientists have been frantically trying to construct batteries made of diamond. The batteries would have the recycled energy of nuclear waste. These batteries would work for at least an entire millennium. Researchers at Bristol University have already…
By Tyler Durden Almost nine years after the century’s worst nuclear crisis – which by some counts has eclipsed Chernobyl in total radioactive emissions – nearly a thousand storage tanks are scattered across the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, holding a staggering 1.1 million…
By Sean Walton Western governors are disappointed that the U.S. Department of Energy didn’t consult their states’ nuclear waste experts before releasing a five-year plan for a nuclear waste facility in New Mexico, the governors say. The Western Governors’ Association in a Sept. 30 letter…
By Tyler Durden UN Secretary General António Guterres has sounded the alarm over a giant concrete dome built 40 years ago in the Marshall Islands to contain radioactive waste from Cold War-era atomic tests. According to Guterres, the dome – which houses approximately 73,000 cubic…
By Daisy Luther A “state of emergency” has been declared by the staff at Brunswick Nuclear Plant in Southport, North Carolina. Few details are available at the moment, but the emergency is currently classified as “an unusual event” due to flooding from Hurricane Florence. If…
By Carey Wedler A nuclear power plant in Southern California that was shut down in 2012 continues to leak radioactive material and poses a threat to nearby communities. The aging San Onofre, located in San Clemente, CA, was shut down in 2012 amid a leak…
By Rachel Blevins As the city of San Francisco attempts to build new government housing on a former nuclear test site, an investigation has revealed that the contractors who were supposed to clean up the area intentionally botched the work, even going as far as…
By Jeremiah Johnson By now you’re poignantly aware of the false-alarm that was raised in Hawaii on Saturday 1/13/18. For 38 minutes there was wholesale panic and alarm after the following message alert was sent out to cell phones and over the TV and radio…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor A Russian region is literally experiencing radiation nearly 1,000x the norm – but from where? What about the cloud over Europe in October? About a month ago, a “mysterious radiation cloud” was witnessed over Europe, but the source remains unknown, despite speculation that…
By Jake Johnson The disaster is believed to have resulted from Pyongyang’s hydrogen bomb test, which sparked earthquakes and landslides Experts are issuing urgent warnings of a possible radiation leak following the collapse of a tunnel at North Korea’s Punggye-ri nuclear test site, an accident that reportedly killed…
By Mac Slavo Governments of the world have long been in the business of manipulation and power accumulation. This is ever evident in the current events we are seeing. But there were some instances in which top-secret experiments could have wiped out humanity. It is…
By Vic Bishop A member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently informed the public that radioactive waste from the decommissioned Hanford nuclear power plant is ‘flowing freely’ into the Columbia river. The mighty Columbia river is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region…
By Whitney Webb Researchers at the University of Bristol have managed to transform radioactive graphite waste into efficient diamond batteries with a lifespan of over 5,000 years. Thanks to the work of UK scientists, diamonds may soon become much more than a luxury good. A…
By Amando Flavio In February 2014, radioactive materials leaked from a damaged storage drum in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), located in the state of New Mexico, United States. According to United States federal government officials, the WIPP is the world’s third deepest geological repository, licensed…
