This week's edition—about designing warning symbols for nuclear waste that will last for the next 10,000 years—can be played below. Or keep reading to learn more.

How will "STAY OUT!" be written 5,000 years from now? We will eventually dispose of some amount of nuclear waste in a deep geologic repository, and with the discussion of resurrecting the Yucca Mt ...

More than three decades after that revelation, the nuclear waste dump remains in Lanyu, a painful reminder for the Tao of the government’s broken promises, and a symbol for Taiwan’s Indigenous ...

Sweden's radioactive nuclear waste will be stored in a sealed bedrock repository for 100,000 years. It will be hazardous for a very long time. ... So does the interpretation of images and symbols.

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 ...

Gary Headrick walked the soggy sea wall between the nuclear plant and the roiling ocean at king tide. Wild waves crashed just yards from where millions of pounds of nuclear waste sat, encased in ...

It is not expected to put any waste into the repository before 2040. But eventually the millions of bundles of spent nuclear fuel that Canada has accumulated will be nestled deep underground.