The world-first facility for permanently disposing spent nuclear fuel is set to begin operations in Finland after decades of ...

The first 7.5-ton container of radioactive waste turned into a stable glass form was carefully set on the bottom of a vast ...

After decades of planning, arguing and engineering, workers at the Hanford nuclear reservation in southeast Washington this ...

Somewhere beneath the pine forests of southwestern Finland, more than 400 meters of ancient rock separate the surface from a ...

US radioactive waste disposal technology developer Deep Isolation has called for nuclear waste disposal to be included in the National Association of State Energy Officials' Advanced Nuclear First ...

To residents, cleanup at a Parks Township nuclear waste dump will look like a few trucks leaving the site every week, said Nicholas Melina, Commander of the Pittsburgh District of the Army Corps of ...

A robust, federally supported recycling program could reduce volumes of long-lived radioactive waste from the civilian nuclear power fleet by more than 95%, according to the Energy Innovation Reform ...

Hundreds of 55-gallon drums filled with low-level radioactive waste have sat buried or stored at a site in western ...

Geological disposal, optimized materials and greater use of digital tools to enhance communication with stakeholders are among the innovations the nuclear industry is developing to address outstanding ...

The safe disposal of radioactive waste over extended timescales presents a critical scientific and engineering challenge.

THE mayor of Tokyo’s Ogasawara village has said it will accept the central government’s request to conduct a literature ...

LONDON/WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s plan to unleash a wave of small futuristic nuclear reactors to power the AI era is falling back on an age-old strategy to dispose of the highly toxic ...