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 ...

The Hanford Field Office and its tank operations contractor have begun retrieving radioactive and chemical waste from another ...

A new report by the feds says cleanup at the Hanford site will take until 2086, with other work needed until 2100.

Nuclear energy hasn’t just been making a comeback in recent months. According to many experts, including US Secretary of ...

The United States' 54 nuclear power plants provide about 20% ... They envision the "batteries" being used near nuclear waste production sites, in space, or during deep sea exploration. They are ...

The Army Corps of Engineers is targeting fall of this year to start remediation on the Parks Township nuclear waste dump, a ...

Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States Created during an era of rapid nuclear expansion, the 1982 Nuclear Waste Policy Act outlined a process for assessing nuclear waste sites and ...

Trump’s pick to lead the U.S. nuclear weapons agency faced Senate questions over workforce cuts, morale issues and the future of nuclear weapons testing.

(Courtesy: R Cao) Scientists in the US have developed a new type of photovoltaic battery that runs on the energy given off by nuclear waste. The battery uses a scintillator crystal to transform the ...

At the end of November, the Nuclear Waste Management Organization announced it had selected the Ignace-area site for its storage facility, after the plan was backed by the Township of Ignace and ...

Gerald Frankel receives funding from ONR, DOE. 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.