Work has begun to place a new protective layer over historic trenches at the UK's Low Level Waste Repository site at Drigg in West Cumbria, Nuclear Waste Services has announced. One of the first train ...

The 3.6 million pounds of spent nuclear fuel stored at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) are a symptom of a national failure that has left nuclear waste stranded at more than 80 sites ...

Nuclear power’s dirtiest secret is not how the fuel is made, but where it ends up sitting for decades: in crowded pools of water at the very plants that burned it. The technology to move most of that ...

Sweden's radioactive nuclear waste will be stored in a sealed bedrock repository for 100,000 years. It will be hazardous for a very long time. So how can we ensure that humanity does not forget that ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Federal officials have backtracked on plans to cancel a lease for office space in New Mexico where dozens of U.S. Department of Energy employees who oversee the nation’s only ...

An operating permit which is valid until 2095 has been issued by the Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority of Finland for a ...

Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization, the nonprofit responsible for long-term management of the country’s used nuclear power plant fuel, has selected companies to plan, design, build and ...

Scandinavian Breakthrough: Sweden and Finland are leading global efforts to solve nuclear waste challenges with underground repositories designed to last 100,000 years, while Norway is preparing to ...

The justices rebuffed a petition from an anti-nuclear group that had asked the court to address temporary waste storage.

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