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

As nuclear power projects operate there will be an increase in the waste they produce. Spent nuclear fuel would constitute a ...

Oak Ridge researchers are converting nuclear waste into components for targeted alpha therapy, a cancer treatment that ...

DOE is trying to change the rules on nuclear waste disposal. For the better. Instead of the old top-down decision-making, DOE is going to implement a consent-based strategy. So instead of ordering ...

As countries across the world experience a resurgence in nuclear energy projects, the questions of where and how to dispose ...

Deep Isolation announced partnering with nuclear giant Bechtel to bring their technology for nuclear waste disposal to fruition. It uses fracking to put nuclear waste in two-mile-long tunnels, a ...

A 20-year-old US underground nuclear waste dump, explained By . Associated Press. Published March 25, 2019. Updated March 25, 2019, 1:56 p.m. ET.

Nuclear weapons waste disposal using Carlsbad-area site draws fears, support from locals. Adrian Hedden. Carlsbad Current-Argus ...

Aging underground nuclear waste tanks dating to 1940s plutonium production at the U.S. Energy Dept.’s Hanford former weapons site in Washington have leaked into groundwater.

In the 1980s, Congress established a national nuclear waste disposal program that sought to set up repositories for different categories of waste from weapons sites and civilian power plants.

As it happens, nuclear powers of the world regularly dump nuclear waste into the ocean in violation of the London Convention (1972) and the London Protocol (1996), which are the two principal ...

Much of the waste, made up of plutonium pits and other materials used in the development of nuclear warheads, was stored at the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas after it was deemed in excess of ...