What Should America Do With Its Nuclear Waste? Currently there are about 80 locations in 35 states where spent fuel is being stored, with no long-term plans for disposal. April 11, 2022 More than ...

At a townhall, Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Gray addressed concerns about Radiant Nuclear proposed nuclear project in Bar ...

The United States alone has 85,000 metric tons of nuclear waste, which is increasing at a rate of 2,000 metric tons per year.6 The most dangerous of this waste is designated high-level waste ... a ...

The thorniest issue is the highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel. SONGS officials say that it’s stored safely in sealed ...

High-level nuclear waste has been piling up in the U.S. for decades, and we still have no permanent home for it. Policy makers have been wrestling with the issue since at least 1982, when Congress ...

In 2024, there were 440 nuclear reactors operating in 32 countries around the world. Even countries without reactors generate nuclear waste from research laboratories, industrial equipment, and ...

The waste should really be a chief selling point for nuclear energy, particularly for those who care about the environment: There’s not very much of it, it’s easily contained, it becomes safer ...

Texas says that’s not allowed under either the 1954 law or the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, the law that was supposed to pave the way for permanent storage in a federal facility.

The Supreme Court on June 18 rejected challenges to a nuclear waste storage site on the Texas-New Mexico border.