(Natural News) A team of six experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency is meeting with Japanese officials to discuss the technical details of the planned release of radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Many farmers in the area have been expressing concerns that the release will have a negative impact on prices […]

(Natural News) The Department of Energy (DOE) announced Thursday, April 29, that an underground nuclear waste storage tank in Washington state had been leaking gallons of contaminated liquid into the ground. This was the second tank discovered to be leaking waste left from the production of plutonium for nuclear weapons at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. The first was discovered in 2013. […]

(Natural News) California startup Nano Diamond Battery (NDB) says it has designed a battery made from nuclear waste that will take up to 28,000 years to run out of charge. The “forever” diamond battery was developed for use in deep space and other niche applications, but a consumer-facing prototype is also in the works. The firm said that the latter model will be able to last for nine consecutive […]

(Natural News) Americans who join the armed forces know in advance that they are volunteering for what can be  one of the most dangerous jobs in the world if or when the country goes to war. That is especially true for our special operations warriors who are very often sent into harm’s way even when […]

(Natural News) The head of the United Nations Secretariat recently brought up concerns that a “nuclear coffin” on a Pacific island might be leaking radioactive waste. The toxic pollutants might have been spreading for years. The U.S. built the concrete dome during the 1970s to store toxic substances cleaned up from nearby nuclear weapons testing […]

(Natural News) The world was forever changed in 1986 when a nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl power plant caught fire and exploded. The explosion shot radioactive material into the environment, making the area uninhabitable for humans. Approximately 116,000 people from the former Soviet Union town of Pripyat were evacuated. Small villages were left behind as […]

(Natural News) The fallout from one of the worst nuclear disasters in history is likely about to get far worse, with Japanese news media reporting that the storage capacity for collecting radioactive water at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is close to reaching its limit. The power plant was first commissioned in 1971, and […]

(Natural News) As the whole world continues to cope with the realities brought forth by nuclear power and nuclear weapons, one review of the nuclear damage inflicted upon the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki puts the spotlight on just how dangerous they truly are. Written by Eiichiro Ochiai, a Japanese researcher from the University of […]

(Natural News) Yeast may hold potential as a safe and cost-effective material for cleaning up large volumes of acidic radioactive liquid wastes, experts reported in the journal Frontiers in Microbiology. The scientists explained that yeast contains strong properties that could withstand radiation emitted from radioactive sites, which continue to contaminate the environment following the end of the Cold War era. […]

(Natural News) In September this year, a radioactive cloud was spotted above Europe. Researchers who investigated the incident discovered that the cloud was swept westward towards Europe from the Ural mountains, which serves as a boundary between Russia, Europe, and the rest of Asia. Researchers who looked into the incident hypothesized that the radioactive cloud […]