Finland successfully completed the first test of its encapsulation plant, which, if finished, will become the world’s first ...

Routinely grouting rather than glassifying some of the least radioactive tank waste has the potential to save billions of ...

Work has started to demolish and subsequently reconstruct an interim storage facility for low-level radioactive waste at the ...

Italy’s Societa Gestione Impianti Nucleari (Sogin) has begun the demolition and subsequent reconstruction of the Ersba-1 ...

The decades-long struggle to find a permanent place to dispose of nuclear waste will continue, probably for many years to ...

Once the waste arrives at the plant, it is dumped into a storage pit whose total capacity is 4,200 metric tonnes (to hold enough waste for power generation for one week). The waste is treated ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is considering arguments about temporary storage sites for the country's 90,000 tons of nuclear waste.

Officials with the state of Idaho and the U.S. Department of Energy have agreed to a waiver of the state’s 1995 nuclear waste ...

Work to build a storage facility to keep radioactive waste for up to 100 years is set to take a step forward. Sellafield, in ...