THE MISSOURI River basin encompasses a vast region in the central and west-central portion of our country. This river, our nation’s longest, collects the melt from Rocky Mountain snowpack and the runoff from our continents’ upper plains before joining the Mississippi river above St. Louis some 2,300 miles later. It is a...

THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA has passed by the case of a nuclear plant in Nebraska that suffered from a fire two weeks ago. Officials there say it was extinguished in about 20 minutes, but now there is cause for a new concern—water in the river is rising and specialists believe it could pose a whole new problem. There has...

BRACEVILLE, Ill.—Radioactive tritium has leaked from three-quarters of U.S. commercial nuclear power sites, often into groundwater from corroded, buried piping, an Associated Press investigation shows. The number and severity of the leaks has been escalating, even as federal regulators extend the licenses of more...