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06/02/2018 / By David Williams

A man with legal problems over a plutonium contamination scandal joins EPA’s Environmental Justice team

A little over a year ago, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had a change in leadership. After serving more than two decades in charge of the agency as the Chief Environmental Justice Official, Mustafa Ali decided to call it quits. In his resignation letter, he asked the person who was going to replace him, Scott […]

03/01/2018 / By David Williams

Radioactive isotopes of plutonium escaped demolition zone of bomb-making plant; workers test positive for exposure

News coverage regarding a recent Hanford incident wherein an extremely dangerous demolition job took place has been plentiful, but no workers that were on-site when it happened have come out to share any of their stories to the press. Until now, that is. For the first time, a Hanford worker – under the promise of […]

12/01/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

Belarusian mushrooms found to be contaminated with radioactive cesium

A shipment of Belarus mushrooms has been seized by French officials due to low-level radiological contamination. As reported by Yahoo.com, customs officials discovered that the 3.5-ton shipment, coming through Frankfurt, Germany, contained traces of cesium-137 or radiocaesium. Though the shipment of mushrooms wasn’t stated to be a health threat, they will still be destroyed using […]

10/17/2017 / By Jayson Veley

Flood of radioactivity in Europe may be coming from Russia, according to experts

Since the end of September, experts claim that there has been a spike in radioactivity detected in the air over Germany, Italy, Austria, Switzerland and France. Although scientists are still unaware of what is responsible for this increase, new calculations suggest that it originally came from somewhere within the southern Ural Mountains. Specifically, the radioactive […]

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