The United States is home to 21 “stranded” nuclear-waste storage sites, according to a new map from the Congressional Research Service that displays a total of 80 sites where the country's ...

WASHINGTON — The federal government has no legal way to dispose of certain nuclear waste, forcing sites around the country to hold onto their radioactive waste and risking widespread ...

The interactive Nuclear Waste Route Maps, published online by Environmental Working Group (EWG), reveals the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) plans for shipping some 70,000 tons of high-level ...

Yet existing and planned nuclear waste sites operate on much shorter timeframes: often 10,000 or 100,000 years. ... but no country has allotted enough funds to cover nuclear waste disposal.

Low-level radioactive waste packages accumulated from the 1960s at the Nuclear Energy Corporation South Africa (Necsa) in the North West have been removed to a waste disposal site, the corporation ...

The United States is looking to ramp up its nuclear energy sector. In September this year, the go-ahead was given for the construction of a dump in West Texas that will act as a disposal site for ...