Nuclear waste is largely misunderstood, thanks to the Cold War and war movies. However, even if nuclear energy is safer than ...

Everyone talks about nuclear waste like it’s an unsolvable apocalypse, but the truth is way more practical. The real problem ...

Nuclear Waste Program's efforts to oversee cleanup of one of the world's most complex nuclear sites. Join us as we look back ...

One of the highest-risk components of nuclear waste is iodine-129 (I-129), which stays radioactive for millions of years and accumulates in human thyroids when ingested. In the U.S., nuclear waste ...

Nearly 80 years of nuclear waste in the US is currently stranded — stuck in "temporary" storage sites without a permanent place to go. How big of a problem is this? And could recycling this waste ...

SEATTLE (AP) — For much of the 20th century, a sprawling complex in the desert of southeastern Washington state turned out most of the plutonium used in the nation’s nuclear arsenal, from the first ...

Some 3.55 million pounds of nuclear waste is beached at San Onofre. The spent fuel held in more than 120 stainless steel canisters at the now-shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, lodged ...

Ed Miliband’s flagship green energy cable to Orkney is being sold as a clean power lifeline, yet the route it must take cuts straight through some of the most contaminated seabed in Britain. The risk ...

Will nuclear waste travel all the way from Ontario, Canada to a site about an hour drive from Salt Lake City? An interstate panel may consider a resolution later this month on whether to allow ...

Deep Isolation announced the completion of Project SAVANT, an effort aimed at advancing deep borehole disposal for nuclear ...

Deep Isolation Nuclear, an innovator in nuclear waste disposal technology, on January 13 said the company has successfully ...

TVO has received an operating permit from Finnish regulator STUK for its low-level nuclear waste facility in Olkiluoto.