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Radioactive spill reported in Northeast Ohio nuclear power plant
Cleveland.com - Mon Dec 16, 2024
PERRY, Ohio - At least 78 gallons of water containing radioactive chemicals were spilled at the Perry Nuclear Power Plant in Lake County in 2024, according to a voluntary report from its parent corporation, Texas-based Vistra Corp. More»

Russia Warns of Nuclear, Hypersonic Deployment if Sweden and Finland Join NATO
Reuters - Thu Apr 14, 2022
One of Russian President Vladimir Putin's closest allies warned NATO on Thursday that if Sweden and Finland joined the US-led military alliance then Russia would deploy nuclear weapons and hypersonic missiles in an exclave in the heart of Europe. More»

What To Do with Closed Nuclear Plant’s Wastewater?
Associated Press - Sun Apr 10, 2022
One million gallons of radioactive water is inside a former nuclear power plant along Cape Cod Bay and it has got to go. More»

Russian Troops Suffer ‘Acute Radiation Sickness’ After Digging Chernobyl Trenches
Daily Beast - Thu Mar 31, 2022
Several hundred Russian soldiers were forced to hastily withdraw from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine after suffering “acute radiation sickness” from contaminated soil, according to Ukrainian officials. More»

Russian Troops Disturbed Radioactive Dust in "Suicidal" Move
Reuters - Tue Mar 29, 2022
Russian soldiers who seized the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster drove their armoured vehicles without radiation protection through a highly toxic zone called the "Red Forest", kicking up clouds of radioactive dust, workers at the site said. More»

Russia Warns the US of "big nuclear explosion" in Threat
Reuters - Wed Mar 23, 2022
LONDON, England - One of President Vladimir Putin's closest allies warned the United States on Wednesday that the world could spiral towards a nuclear dystopia if Washington pressed on with what the Kremlin casts as a long-term plot to destroy Russia. More»

'Nuclear Detonation' Response Simulation to be Held in Atlanta
WXIA-TV - Thu Mar 10, 2022
ATLANTA, Georgia — Atlanta-Fulton County Emergency Management Agency is participating Thursday in a "nuclear detonation" simulation with US Northern Command. More»

Ukraine Says the Chernobyl Nuclear Site Has Lost Power
NPR - Wed Mar 9, 2022
The Chernobyl nuclear site has lost power, according to a Facebook post by the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine. More»

Radiation Disaster - Europe's biggest nuclear power plant ON FIRE after being attacked by Russian tanks
Daily Mail - Thu Mar 3, 2022
The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, the largest of its kind in Europe, was on fire in the early hours of Friday morning after an attack by Russian troops, the mayor of the nearby town of Energodar said. More»

Putin Puts Nuclear Forces on High Alert
Associated Press - Sun Feb 27, 2022
KYIV, Ukraine — In a dramatic escalation of East-West tensions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin ordered Russian nuclear forces put on high alert Sunday in response to what he called “aggressive statements” by leading NATO powers. More»

Chernobyl: Radiation spike at nuclear plant seized by Russian forces
BBC - Fri Feb 25, 2022
A radiation spike has been recorded near Chernobyl's nuclear power plant which has been seized by Russian forces, monitoring data shows. More»

Fighting Breaks Out Near Chernobyl, Leading to Fears of Nuclear Contamination Over Europe
Yahoo News - Thu Feb 24, 2022
Russian troops have pushed into the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone — "one of the most radioactive places on Earth" — with shelling reportedly threatening buried nuclear waste storage sites, The Kyiv Independent reports based on comments by Anton Herashchenko, an advisor to the Ukrainian Interior Ministry. More»

Explosion Sends Potentially Radioactive Dust Into Air Above LA
NBC News - Fri Nov 12, 2021
The US Department of Energy demolished a building using explosives last month at the highly contaminated Santa Susana Field Lab (SSFL), a former nuclear and rocket test site in the hills above LA. More»

US Government Works to 'Cocoon' Old Nuclear Reactors
Associated Press - Thu Nov 4, 2021
RICHLAND, Washington - Costs to clean up a massive nuclear weapons complex in Washington state are usually expressed in the hundreds of billions of dollars and involve decades of work. More»

U.S. Navy engineer, wife charged with selling submarine secrets
Reuters - Sun Oct 10, 2021
WASHINGTON - A US Navy nuclear engineer and his wife have been charged with selling secret information about nuclear submarines to an undercover FBI agent who posed as an operative for a foreign country, the Justice Department said on Sunday. More»

New criminal charges filed in SC’s nuclear plant failure, revealing how project unraveled
The State - Thu Aug 19, 2021
A second high-ranking employee of Westinghouse Electric is facing criminal charges in connection with the multi-billion dollar failure of the doomed SCANA nuclear project in Fairfield County. More»

French nuclear firm trying to fix ‘performance issue’ at China plant
The Guardian - Mon Jun 14, 2021
A French nuclear company has said it is working to resolve a “performance issue” at a plant it part-owns in China’s southern Guangdong province after an earlier report of a potential leak there. More»

Vulnerable to both terrorists and Mother Nature, Japan's nuclear power plants are accidents waiting to happen
Daily Beast - Mon Apr 19, 2021
The man who predicted the world’s worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl sees another one looming. More»

USGS Health Officials Warn of High Levels of Arsenic and Uranium in Some Private Connecticut Wells
NBC New York - Tue Apr 6, 2021
The US Geological Survey and the Connecticut Department of Public Health are warning state residents of the chance for higher than recommended levels of arsenic and uranium in their private well. More»

Radiation Fears: Truck carrying radioactive uranium compound crashes in North Carolina
The Sun - Wed Mar 31, 2021
CUMBERLAND COUNTY, North Carolina - A truck carrying a radioactive uranium compound crashed on Wednesday as drivers were evacuated from the area, reports say. More»

Microsoft says it found malicious software in its systems
Reuters - Thu Dec 17, 2020
SAN FRANCISCO, California - Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it found malicious software in its systems related to a massive hacking campaign disclosed by US officials this week, adding a top technology target to a growing list of attacked government agencies. More»

Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught
Politico - Thu Dec 17, 2020
The Energy Department and National Nuclear Security Administration, which maintains the US nuclear weapons stockpile, have evidence that hackers accessed their networks as part of an extensive espionage operation that has affected at least half a dozen federal agencies, officials directly familiar with the matter said. More»

Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iran's top nuclear scientist, assassinated near Tehran
BBC - Fri Nov 27, 2020
Iran's most senior nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh has been assassinated near the capital Tehran, the country's defence ministry has confirmed. More»

Trump Dumps 3 Agency Leaders In Wake Of Election
NPR - Sat Nov 7, 2020
The Trump administration abruptly dumped the leaders of three agencies that oversee the nuclear weapons stockpile, electricity and natural gas regulation, and overseas aid during the past two days, drawing a rebuke from a prominent Republican senator for one of the decisions. More»

No Danger to the Public! Employees at New Mexico nuclear lab may have been exposed to plutonium
Daily Mail - Wed Jul 8, 2020
LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico - Officials at one of the nation's premier nuclear labs are investigating the potential exposure of employees to plutonium. More»

2019 Seattle radiation leak a 'near miss' to disaster
KING-TV - Thu May 21, 2020
SEATTLE, Washington - A March report from the US Department of Energy (DOE) says a radiation leak at the Harborview Research and Training Building one year ago was “preventable” and “a near miss to a significant event” that could have devastated the Seattle area. More»

US atomic waste dump in Marshall Islands to be investigated
BBC - Mon Dec 30, 2019
The US Congress has demanded an investigation into a concrete dome full of nuclear waste, threatened by rising sea levels in the Marshall Islands. More»

Russian Nuclear Scientists Killed In Accident Were Working On 'Cutting-Edge' Military Technologies, Putin Claims
CNN - Fri Nov 22, 2019
An accident at a Russian military test site that claimed the lives of five nuclear agency workers and sent radiation levels spiking is likely to remain shrouded in mystery, after Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov on Friday said information around the incident would stay "strictly classified. More»

Nuclear weapons and hurricanes don't mix, NOAA advises
BBC - Mon Aug 26, 2019
Using nuclear weapons to destroy hurricanes is not a good idea, a US scientific agency has said, following reports that President Donald Trump wanted to explore the option. More»

Russian Nuclear Monitoring Stations Went Silent After Missile Blast
Wall Street Journal - Tue Aug 20, 2019
Two Russian monitoring stations designed to detect nuclear radiation went silent soon after the explosion at a missile test site this month, spurring concerns among observers that the Russian government is trying to restrict evidence of the accident. More»

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