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Topic: Nuclear Waste

FILE - In this July 9, 2014, file photo, a sign informs visitors of prohibited items on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation near Richland, Wash. Officials for the Hanford Nuclear Reservation are trying to determine if a second giant underground tank containing radioactive waste from the production of plutonium for nuclear weapons is leaking, the U.S. Department of Energy revealed. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File) (AP)

Reinterpreting radioactivity

Jillian S. Ambroz - DCReport
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Soaring costs in cleanup of nuclear site

Phil Zahodiakin - FairWarning
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Nuclear waste dumping in Texas

Sarah Okeson
FILE - In this July 9, 2014, file photo, a sign informs visitors of prohibited items on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation near Richland, Wash. Officials for the Hanford Nuclear Reservation are trying to determine if a second giant underground tank containing radioactive waste from the production of plutonium for nuclear weapons is leaking, the U.S. Department of Energy revealed. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File) (AP)

The Cold War's toxic legacy

William J. Kinsella - The Conversation
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Oliver on nuclear waste

Taylor Link
Steam rises from the cooling towers of the nuclear power plant in Gundremmingen, southern Germany (Getty/Christof Stache)

You make me want to nuke

Diane Stopyra
A transuranic waste shipment travels on an approved shipping route to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (U.S. Department of Energy)

Lindsay Abrams
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Rebecca LaFlure - Center For Public Integrity
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(Brandon Bourdages/Shutterstock)

Lindsay Abrams
Workers at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima. (Reuters/Kyodo Kyodo)

Lindsay Abrams
The steel structure for the use of the spent fuel removal from the cooling pool is seen at the Unit 4 of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant at Okuma in Fukushima prefecture, Japan, Wednesday, June 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Noboru Hashimto)

Mari Yamaguchi
A scene from "China Syndrome"

Are greens going nuclear?

Andrew O'Hehir
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Associated Press

Bruce Barcott - Pacific Standard
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