Tepco has also documented some worker injuries from contact with radioactive sludge, heightening the urgency to deploy robotics for hazardous tasks. Three of the plant’s six reactors were active ...

MARTINS FERRY, Ohio (WTRF) — “Radioactive liquids and sludge,” “harmful contaminants,” and “worsened conditions,” are among the descriptions that make up the allegations found in the ...

The amount of highly radioactive sludge, or “slurry,” produced in the process of treating contaminated water continues to increase, but no effective treatment method has been decided upon.

Buried beneath the ground, in storage tanks, are 56 million gallons of radioactive waste. Many of them are leaking into the ground. According to NBC, some nuclear experts have said Hanford is "an ...

Using molten salt prevents radioactive sludge from leaking because the boiling point of salt is too high for it to evaporate at reactor temperatures. In case of overheating, the molten salt ...

The radioactive sludge is then placed in High Integrity Containers (HICs) at a temporary storage facility on an elevated platform on the south side of the No. 1 to No. 4 reactors at the Fukushima ...

Work has begun at Italy's Garigliano nuclear power plant to dismantle an old radioactive waste system, used during the ...

the waste must be sent to a low-level radioactive waste disposal facility,” according to the DOH. In Ohio, wastewater treatment plants are required to annually report the weight of sludge ...

Cadmium recently was found at high levels in livers of British sheep grazing on a pasture fertilized for many years with sewage sludge. According to findings ... researcher pushes tobacco plants to ...