Essentially, these sites bury the nuclear waste to allow it to decay without impacting the environment at large. Credit: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Four sites are authorized to dispose of ...

At San Onofre — just yards from the shore break, on a bluff over the blue Pacific, in an active earthquake zone and close to ...

We needs a permanent national nuclear waste disposal site now, before the spent nuclear fuel stored in 35 states becomes unsafe. By Allison Macfarlane & Rodney C. Ewing.

More: Nuclear weapons waste disposal using Carlsbad-area site draws fears, support from locals Mark Bollinger, acting manager of the DOE’s Carlsbad Field Office said WIPP’s primary operations ...

More: Transition begins for $3B nuclear waste contract at federal disposal site near Carlsbad But Panel 7, which was recently filled, began operations in 2013, records show, and work to fill it ...

NRC issued a license to the JV team of Waste Control Specialists and Orano USA to store for 40 years up to 5,000 metric tons of spent nuclear power plant fuel and 231 metric tons of low-level ...

The ongoing assessment of areas to host a final disposal facility for high-level radioactive waste from nuclear power plants raises many questions about whether it can really identify suitable ...

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson pushed back stating: “I don't hear you disputing that Congress in the [Nuclear Waste] Policy Act was expressing its, perhaps, preference for on-site storage. … ...