This breakthrough is significant because it provides a solution to a waste challenge that has puzzled experts for years. By ...

Despite more than 50 years of research on the safety of geological disposal of radioactive waste, the research community has ...

The big lesson for lawmakers mulling nuclear waste legislation is beware the federal government’s nuclear waste schemes, Steff Kessler opines.

A new way to identify salts in nuclear waste melters could help improve clean-up technology, including at the Hanford Site, ...

Is permanent storage the only strategy for dealing with nuclear waste? No, says Prof. Kristina Kvashnina of the ...

Because Hanford was used to make plutonium for the very first nuclear bomb, the waste there is particularly complex, containing nearly all of the elements of the periodic table, said Bussey.

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC ... Speck said she and the others have been campaigning for changes that would ...

The EPA will begin work to remove more than 1 million cubic yards of radioactive waste from sites on the Navajo Nation.

Our easy-to-read articles provide context to grasp what’s happening, while our questions help you craft informed ... that the amount of radioactive tritium in waste water from Chinese nuclear ...

Nuclear waste is spread across 94 different nuclear sites in the U.S. and has no permanent home. Big Tech is going to add more to the pile.

This prospect will make local communities that may host the disposal facility concerned about the possibility that radioactive waste may be brought to the site without end. The law is based on the ...