Nuclear waste. We've all heard about it but what exactly is it and why is it so important? How big is the problem and is it a problem without a solution? New Atlas takes a look at the basics.

Only two small towns — one near Dryden and another near Lake Huron — along with two First Nations get a say in where this nuclear waste facility will be located.

IGNACE — This township along the Trans-Canada Highway may be Canada first host municipality for an underground nuclear waste facility, but it might not be the only one – eventually.

The control room for the Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste Facility at the US Department of Energy's Hanford site in Washington State has been commissioned. The facility is one of four major facilities ...

To be located near the nuclear plant at Forsmark, 150 kilometres north of Stockholm, it will have space for 6,000 copper canisters of waste when it opens in the 2080s.

TORONTO - An organization tasked with managing Canada's nuclear waste found one site to store millions of bundles of radioactive used fuel for thousands of years hundreds of metres underground ...

The waste from nuclear energy poses so little danger, a person would need to stand near it for an entire year to be exposed to as much radiation “as maybe one or two X-rays,” said Brian Vangor ...

One of the problems is that, according to the laws, nuclear waste can no longer be stored in a state or patch of tribal land without the consent of the people who live there. And no one wants it.

Around the U.S., about 90,000 tons of nuclear waste is stored at over 100 sites in 39 states, in a range of different structures and containers. For decades, the nation has been trying to send it ...

The waste from nuclear energy poses so little danger, a person would need to stand near it for an entire year to be exposed to as much radiation “as maybe one or two X-rays,” said Brian Vangor ...

The Indian Point nuclear power plant was an energy juggernaut for 50 years, generating a quarter of the electricity that powered New York City’s iconic, glowing skyline. It is well into its ...

Taxpayers have already paid $47 billion in storage fees on all of the homeless nuclear waste, and that price tag will continue to grow until the feds can find a permanent solution. “The longer we wait ...