The U.S. Department of Energy is betting $40 million that scientists can shrink the danger window of spent nuclear fuel from ...

"The same goes for the legal or financial responsibility." Officials spark backlash with concerning plan for nuclear waste: ...

Currently, there are thousands of metric tons of used solid fuel from nuclear power plants worldwide and millions of liters of radioactive liquid waste from weapons production sitting in temporary ...

There are over 100 nuclear waste storage sites across the U.S., most located near nuclear plants such as those in Hanford, ...

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Japan has identified Minamitorishima, a remote and uninhabited coral atoll in the western Pacific, as a potential site for permanent nuclear waste disposal. The proposal marks the first time the ...

Sweden has commenced construction of a final storage facility for spent nuclear fuel, where highly radioactive waste will be stored for 100,000 years. Currently, there are thousands of metric tons of ...

Nuclear waste shipments to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant repository near Carlsbad were suspended for about two months as workers completed numerous maintenance projects at the underground facility.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Federal officials have backtracked on plans to cancel a lease for office space in New Mexico where dozens of U.S. Department of Energy employees who oversee the nation’s only ...

Ground work has begun for the construction of a final repository for used nuclear fuel in Forsmark, in Östhammar municipality, radioactive waste management company Svensk Kärnbränslehantering AB ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Federal officials have backtracked on plans to cancel a lease for office space in New Mexico where dozens of U.S. Department of Energy employees who oversee the nation’s only ...