But cleaning up nuclear waste is difficult. It can't be burned or buried. Soon, a waste management plant will turn the waste into glass, which can be stored away for thousands of years.

A large amount of accumulated nuclear waste is stored in various containers and facilities at more than 100 sites in 39 ...

Dry cask storage is used to store spent fuel at the Entergy Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon, VT on Oct. 20, 2015. © Photo by Don Ramey Logan There’s a ...

Scandinavian countries are pioneering deep geological storage solutions to safely manage nuclear waste and support the global ...

An existing nuclear waste storage site in rural West Texas is pictured in this undated photo. (Photo courtesy of Waste Control Specialists) The Lone Star State then filed for review before the Fifth ...

More than two decades after construction of the Hanford nuclear site’s massive vitrification plant began, the plant has taken ...

System process enclosure outside AP Tank Farm on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, in this photo on September 24, 2024. The Tank Farm will be used as a staging place for the all the tank waste that ...

Hundreds of protesters gather on the front lawn of Parliament Hill in February to oppose another nuclear waste site in Ottawa, Canada. Photo: Dave Chan/AFP via Getty Images/Grist Canada’s efforts have ...

More site of Yucca Mountain. The site was project never saw fruition, leaving nuclear waste to be stored at the facilities where it is produced. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images) The ...

(Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG) That, friends, is what it costs the U.S. government on the daily because it has no place to put commercial nuclear waste — a service we ...

US Would Assess Nuclear Waste, Plutonium for Reactor Fuel Under Draft Order By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Nuclear waste and radioactive plutonium would be assessed as a fuel for ...