Around the U.S., about 90,000 tons of nuclear waste is stored at more than 100 sites in 39 states, in a range of different ...

Legacy radioactive waste that had been stored at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) for more than 50 years has ...

Real estate developer and former GOP state Senate candidate Tim Walsh is in line for a new gig: overseeing the clean-up of ...

"Not in my backyard" is a term normally used in conversations about proposed new housing or rail lines, but a version of it could soon be heard about one of the most dangerous materials on the planet.

A lawsuit charges National Grid, a major gas utility, with mismanaging a toxic industrial site near two densely-populated ...

The nonpartisan board was established in the late 1980s to provide independent scientific advice and oversight of the Department of Energy’s nuclear waste management. Over the past decade ...

Long-term management and final disposal of this highly radioactive waste is an ongoing problem with no solution in sight. States will have to expect that any radioactive waste generated by SMRs ...

A ship, the Pacific Grebe, containing radioactive nuclear waste from the UK was met by anti-nuclear activists when it ...

Texas will determine ... More how nuclear waste is treated as nuclear energy demand spikes. Credit: Fred Schilling, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States Created during an era of ...

Safely storing radioactive nuclear waste for millennia is already a unique problem. But even greater ... by the Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company (SKB), the KIF details essential ...

The Ministry of Industry has launched a probe into the illegal import of around 10,262 tonnes of powdery waste containing radioactive caesium-137, with documents falsely declaring the material to ...

In unveiling its 2024 annual report this week, the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) said “years of technical study” has shown that “used (nuclear) fuel can be safely transported ...