The fracking industry says its operators strictly adhere to regulations, and it has “no greater priority” than ensuring ...

A facility in Martins Ferry that had stored thousands of tons of waste beyond the legal limit—including some radioactive material—has been cleaned up, according to a statement Wednesday from ...

Exclusive The radioactive rock piquing the WA premier’s interest Tom Rabe WA political correspondent May 20, 2025 – 7.35pm ...

These 13 Places Are So Radioactive, Humans Can't Go Near Them Amid rising global conflicts and concerns about nuclear weapons, some of the world's most radioactive locations pose severe health ...

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Oil and gas waste can become radioactive during the extraction process. As workers drill deep into the earth, they encounter naturally occurring materials like radium, radon, uranium, potassium ...

B ritain’s Atomic Energy Authority told last week what it is doing with the radioactive wastes from its nuclear reactors: it dumps the worrisome stuff into the ocean 200 miles southeast of Land ...

The remaining substance contains radium, which then off-gases radon (you know, the stuff we were terrified of in the late '80s/early '90s.) Using the slightly radioactive substance in road ...

A full seventeen years later, Heart of Chornobyl rebuilds the Zone on a modern graphics engine – yet keeps the original’s blend of hardcore shooting, immersive sim role playing and survival horror ...

That said, granite tends to contain more radioactive elements, like uranium and thorium, because it lends itself well to these elements' crystallization process. These elements decay as time goes by, ...