The long-standing U.S. scientific board had been created to bring more expertise to the challenge of radioactive waste.

As new nuclear technologies emerge, a forward-thinking approach to waste disposal is critical. Ensuring that nuclear waste ...

This township along the Trans-Canada Highway may be Canada first host municipality for an underground nuclear waste facility, but it might not be the only one – eventually. The Nuclear Waste ...

The ongoing assessment of areas to host a final disposal facility for high-level radioactive waste from nuclear power plants raises many questions about whether it can really identify suitable ...

The second of three planned shipments from the UK to Germany of high-level waste in the form of vitrified residues has been ...

Scientists use light-emitting crystals and solar panels to turn the latent energy in nuclear waste into microbatteries.

The second of three planned shipments of high-level radioactive waste has left the Sellafield site in northwest England and ...

After a year of fastidious planning, a microscopic sample of the ultra-rare radioactive element berkelium arrived at a ...

Residents and local leaders from Belleville and surrounding communities have been very vocal about stopping hazardous waste ...

BISMARCK — The legislative push to build nuclear power plants in North Dakota could run up against perennial problems — the U.S. lacks a long-term solution for storing waste, and proposals to ...

Launched in December 2022, this project helped validate Deep Isolation’s patented borehole disposal technology for spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW). “This project is a ...