The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) released a statement this week about Xcel Energy’s efforts to clean up 400,000 gallons of water contaminated with tritium, a radioactive substance, that leaked from a water pipe that runs between two buildings at its plant in Monticello. And Minnesotans everywhere want to know: why weren’t we told about this when it actually occurred? You see, this leak... 

Oil behemoths BP and Chevron dumped toxic waste – including some radioactive material – from their drilling operations into coastal waters, claims Louisiana parish Plaquemines in a lawsuit removed to federal court Thursday. Plaquemines Parish alleges the companies released oil field waste into ocean water “without limitation,” violating the Louisiana State and Local Coastal Resources... 

Oconee Nuclear Station A reactor at one of the nation’s largest nuclear power plants has been taken offline due to a radioactive leak within a containment building. “Out of an abundance of caution,” service was temporarily removed from Unit 1 at the Oconee Nuclear Station in western South Carolina early Monday, according to ONS spokeswoman B.J. Gatten. A robot was used to confirm the leak... 

Millions of Americans are preparing to lose electricity as Hurricane Sandy speeds up the East Coast, but downed power lines might be the least of their worries: the projected path of the storm has Sandy hitting as many as 26 nuclear plants. More than two dozen nuclear facilities up and down the East Coast could be ravaged by a storm expected to be of epic proportions this week. Arnie Gundersen, the... 

Disaster: A satellite picture shows the remains of four reactors. By last night three of them had been hit by explosions while one had caught fire. -California ‘monitoring situation closely’ amid dramatic escalation of disaster -Japan’s nuclear crisis now appears worse than the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in 1979 – but not yet as bad as Chernobyl in 1986 -Japan PM tells...