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Wednesday, May 15, 2013  Federal regulators say more than 100 gallons of water with traces of a radioactive hydrogen isotope have leaked at the Catawba Nuclear Station.

Wednesday, October 31, 2012  State and federal authorities are investigating after a case with radioactive warnings was seized from a locker at a storage business in Goose Creek.

Saturday, July 21, 2012  A company is pursuing its plan to ship tons of radioactive waste from New Jersey to a dump along Interstate 20 in South Carolina.

Wednesday, May 30, 2012  New underground lab turns South Dakota gold town into scientific hub in search for 'dark matter'

Wednesday, October 19, 2011  Officials say a Savannah River Site worker contaminated with plutonium after his finger was punctured in an accident last year will fully recover.

Tuesday, July 12, 2011  The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission says about 100 gallons of liquid waste spilled at the V.C. Summer plant operated by South Carolina Electric & Gas.

Friday, April 08, 2011  Few in new poll confident in US response to possible nuke crisis, but most see it as unlikely. Take our poll and share your views.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011  Radiation detected in Tokyo's tap water; smoke prompts new evacuation of leaking nuclear plant

Monday, November 08, 2010  Technicians at the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant will begin work Monday morning to fix a pipe that leaked radioactive water and forced the plant to shut down.

Tuesday, September 14, 2010  Federal auditors say it will cost nearly $1.5 billion more than expected to empty and seal 22 underground liquid radioactive waste tanks at South Carolina's Savannah River Site.

Friday, April 23, 2010  The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is reversing an earlier decision, and setting a June 1 deadline to decide if the federal Department of Energy can withdraw its application to build a national radioactive waste dump in Nevada.

Monday, February 22, 2010  Utah Gov. Gary Herbert says two trainloads of depleted uranium from South Carolina won't come to Utah as originally planned.

Monday, May 18, 2009  Stimulus money to bring radioactive waste to Utah SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- EnergySolutions Inc. will get a share of $6 billion in federal stimulus funds earmarked to clean up low-level radioactive waste at several sites, including one in South Carolina. The Salt Lake City-based company is specifically named in more than half of the project proposals for the Energy Department's stimulus money.