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Nuclear June 22, 2017

Hanford Nuclear Reservation tunnel collapse triggers alert

Thousands of workers were warned to take cover after a tunnel collapsed Tuesday in a shuttered Washington plutonium uranium extraction plant that was previously used in nuclear weapons production.

New Mexico January 22, 2016

US, New Mexico ink $74 million in settlements over nuclear radiation leak

New Mexico and the U.S. Department of Energy inked $74 million in settlements over dozens of permit violations stemming from a radiation leak that forced the closure of the nation's only underground nuclear waste repository.

Nuclear November 30, 2015

Leak confirmed at nuclear waste dump in New Mexico

Federal officials Thursday confirmed a leak of nuclear waste at a southeastern New Mexico repository, but it could be weeks before workers can safely access the underground dump to determine what happened.

Nuclear November 22, 2015

NM nuclear repository monitored for presence of radiation

Officials monitoring the presence of airborne radiation at the underground site in southeastern New Mexico where the federal government seals away its low-grade nuclear waste said late Saturday that surface tests have shown no danger to people or the environment.