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) ...

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

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

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 ...

Charles McCombie,Chair, is an independent strategic and technical advisor to various national and international waste management programs. Formerly he was the scientific and technical director of ...

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 ...

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

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, ...

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 ...