Hazardous waste containers at Purdue are stored in satellite accumulation areas (SAA). SAA's are used to manage waste in laboratories and shops because it provides safe and effective means to ...

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif.– UCSB evacuated the Elings Hall, Building 226, due to a fire in a chemical waste storage container, according to Santa Barbara County Fire. Hazmat teams were on the scene ...

Los Alamos National Laboratory is storing hundreds, maybe thousands, of barrels of radioactive waste mixed with incompatible chemicals that have the potential to cause an explosion , putting workers ...

The Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate has called for the systematic management of the aging of containers in the country's interim radioactive waste storage facilities. The requirement follows ...