The site of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine has been surrounded for more than three decades by a 1,000-square-mile (2,600-square-kilometer) exclusion zone that keeps people out.

The Runit Dome, aka "The Tomb", soon after it was built in 1980. (Public Domain) A gaping hole was left on a small island in ...

A Rhode Island start-up is working to recycle spent nuclear fuel into long-lasting power systems for the military ...

A decades-old Hawaii County law allowing the U.S. armed forces to freely transport radioactive materials on the island may be coming to an end. Kona Council member Holeka Goro Inaba introduced a ...

A controversial hazardous waste landfill off I-94 near Belleville is to receive tens of thousands of cubic yards of radioactive soil and other waste from a former military supplier in Ohio. And the ...

Timothy A. Mousseau receives funding from the Samuel Freeman Charitable Trust. The site of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine has been surrounded for more than three decades by a ...

Much of the region around Chernobyl has been untouched by people since the nuclear disaster in 1986. Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images. Timothy A. Mousseau, University of South ...