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The US Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management announced on Tuesday 10 February that crews at the Hanford Site near Richland, Washington, have started retrieving radioactive waste from Tank A-106, a one-million-gallon underground storage tank built in the 1950s. The Hanford Site is a decommissioned nuclear production complex
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The US state of New Mexico has issued a number of actions to formally rebuke the federal US Department of Energy for "failing to prioritise the cleanup of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s 'legacy waste'". In a statement released on Wednesday 11 February, the New Mexico
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Hazmat, SWAT and FBI teams raided a home in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Saturday 31 January to find what has been described as a possible biological laboratory. Over 1,000 samples collected at the property were subsequently sent for testing. According to sources, the investigation into the property began as
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Almost 200 containers of low-level radioactive waste are being entombed in a purpose-built underground vault at the decommissioned nuclear power plant in Dounreay, Scotland. The waste once formed part of the UK's experiment with fast breeder nuclear reactors, of which Dounreay was at the centre. According to information
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Russian forces used riot control agents against Ukrainian forces 224 times in January 2026. This is according to statistics released by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The riot control agents mainly used by invading Russian forces are K-51 and RG-VO gas grenades, filled with CS and
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The Secretariat of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)’s fifth report, released on 21 January 2026, has concluded there are reasonable grounds to believe that the Syrian Arab Air Forces were the perpetrators of the chemical weapons attack on 1 October 2016 in Kafr Zeita in
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Signs warning visitors about the potential of exposure to harmful radioactive materials have been put up in the Rocky Flats Wildlife Refuge in the US state of Colorado. A press release issued by the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center said that the decision by Boulder County and the City
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Indian authorities have said that they have successfully contained an outbreak of the deadly Nipah virus after confirming two cases in the eastern state of West Bengal since December. In a statement released on Tuesday 27 January, India’s Ministry of Health said that, upon confirmation of those two cases,
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The United Arab Emirates' Federal Public Prosecution has announced the launch of preparatory activities for phase three of a regional specialised programme on CBRN criminal investigations. The programme is taking place under the patronage of Emirati attorney-general, Hamad Saif Al Shamsi, as part of a strategic partnership with the
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The first batch of highly radioactive capsules has been successfully moved from underwater pools to safer, long-term dry storage at the Hanford Site in Washington, USA. According to a news release from Washington's Department of Ecology, the transfer marks a major milestone in efforts to reduce one of
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An investigation by the British radio station LBC has revealed that the Grok artificial intelligence chatbot can give users instructions on how to make chemical and biological weapons. The investigation found that Grok, which is developed by Elon Musk's xAI, could instruct users on how to make ricin,
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The US state of Pennsylvania is urging residents to test their homes for radon, a naturally occurring radioactive gas. The announcement from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection comes during National Radon Action Month, a campaigned designed by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) aimed at raising awareness about radon&