After decades of planning, arguing and engineering, workers at the Hanford nuclear reservation in southeast Washington this ...

The world-first facility for permanently disposing spent nuclear fuel is set to begin operations in Finland after decades of ...

The first 7.5-ton container of radioactive waste turned into a stable glass form was carefully set on the bottom of a vast ...

The United States has roughly 90,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel sitting in temporary storage at reactor sites across ...

In Finland, experts hope they have found a viable solution: burying the waste in bedrock over 1,000 feet underground. More ...

A Washington-based company has successfully validated its borehole technology for safe disposal of high-level ...

Vacant apartments in Missouri are the latest site where radioactive contamination was found. It's tied to improper disposal ...

Gov. Mikie Sherrill signed a nuclear regulatory bill on Wednesday that she says will effectively lift a 40-year moratorium on ...

LONDON/WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s plan to unleash a wave of small futuristic nuclear reactors to power the AI era is falling back on an age-old strategy to dispose of the highly toxic ...

The Prairie Island Nuclear Plant is near Red Wing, Minnesota. (Photo courtesy of Xcel Energy)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — Nuclear energy is at least a decade away from coming to North ...

The world’s first permanent underground repository for spent nuclear fuel is nearing operations in ...

With the push of a button, the elevator descends hundreds of meters in seconds into the dark depths of Onkalo. “We are now at ...