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Major events for the week of Sunday, Aug. 3, through Saturday, Aug. 9, include Columbus’ voyage, Jesse Owens’s Olympic ...
New Mexicans who have been affected by radiation exposure could be the targets of a scam related to a law that is meant to ...
A South African university launched an antipoaching campaign on Thursday to inject the horns of rhinos with radioactive ...
Conservation scientists in South Africa are injecting rhino horns with radioactive isotopes. The doses are too weak to harm ...
Learn more about the wasp nest found at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, and how no wasps have been found around it ...
IT was the day that changed the world for ever – when the first atomic bomb brought ­Armageddon to Japan.  Oscar-winning 2023 ...
The New World Screwworm continues to advance north through Mexico, toward the Texas border. Screwworms are parasitic flies that were once devastating to ranchers, since they lay their larvae in the ...
In a warning to Russia, President Donald Trump said Friday he’s ordering the repositioning of two U.S. nuclear submarines ...
Navajo George Tutt started uranium mining in 1949 as a hand mucker. Hand muckers would procure uranium waste and ore from ...
A concerning find was recently made at the Savannah River Site’s F-Area Tank Farm, involving the discovery of a radioactive ...
A South African university launched an anti-poaching campaign Thursday to inject the horns of rhinos with radioactive isotopes.
The Savannah River Site, built in the early 1950s near Aiken, was designed to produce plutonium pits. These pits played a key role in making nuclear weapons. While the site no longer produces weapons, ...