The Waste Control Specialists site in Andrews County in West Texas, where radioactive and hazardous waste is stored, in 2021. (Eli Hartman For The Texas Tribune, Eli Hartman For The Texas Tribune) ...

Liquid-fueled molten-salt reactors, another new type, could increase waste volume too. In these designs, fuel and coolant are ...

Japan has raised global concern, after reportedly taking initial steps to explore a tiny ...

The development and use of nuclear technology, which began in the early 1940s, has produced a substantial inventory of radioactive waste— material with no current or currently known future use. The ...

Almost all countries with commercial nuclear power production are planning to contain and isolate the waste byproduct of ...

Critics of Minamitorishima proposal point to scant research on the remote Pacific atoll Recent reports of Japan exploring the ...

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 ...

Gov. Greg Abbott says the U.S. Supreme Court was supremely wrong when it ruled Wednesday that high-level nuclear waste can be stored 32 miles west of Andrews. Speaking for Abbott Wednesday night, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 1995 photo of the underground exploratory studies facility at Yucca Mountain. (Photo from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.) ...

Russia put into operation its first near-surface final nuclear waste repository for solid low- and intermediate-level ...

The State Enterprise for Radioactive Waste says that construction of Bulgaria's national repository for low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste has been issued with a certificate confirming the ...