Once part of the Soviet Union, Kazakhstan is now home to an atomic lake created during the USSR’s reign. This lake is in the ...

Chris Donley is among over a dozen people who gathered last week to protest the Republic Services proposal to expand its ...

Just one hour at the shore of Lake Karachay would be enough to kill.The radioactive lake, located in the southern Ural Mountains in central Russia, was a dumping ground for nuclear waste from the ...

Removing radioactive waste from the West Lake Landfill will cost nearly $400 million after federal officials discovered the contamination was far more widespread than previously known, the U.S ...

Testing for radioactive material. The EPA has taken more than 1,000 soil samples from the West Lake Landfill and the surrounding area and found some radioactive material outside the site.

The 200-acre West Lake Landfill holds radioactive waste from the WWII-era atomic bomb and the EPA is required to clean it up. In 2010, a fire broke out underground in another area of the landfill ...