The U.S. Supreme Court's current term includes cases involving gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors, ...

Plastic waste is not only infiltrating our oceans, but also the human body in the form of microplastics. Without urgent action, the amount of plastic entering the ocean each year could reach 37 ...

For now, though, most of it is stored in underground steel tanks, primarily at Hanford, Washington, and Savannah River, South Carolina, key sites in U.S. nuclear weapons development. At Savannah River ...

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Documents and procedures in the appeal are similar to a court case. Each side will have a chance to cross-examine witnesses ...

The total radiological activity of the submerged waste was around 85,000 terabecquerels when it was released into the ocean, Andra added. In the postwar period, as nuclear technology spread to ...

The referendum was on ballots across 14 town elections this month. See the vote totals, next steps and more of Holtec's ...

Salt spray from the ocean can corrode waste containers at nearby nuclear ... Because they need water to both transfer nuclear energy into electricity and to cool the reactor, nuclear power plants ...

At nuclear waste storage locations near the ocean, that salt spray can settle ... including my own, into the potential dangers of this type of corrosion. The general findings are that stainless ...