Ogura can still remember that terrible morning in August, 80 years ago. Her older brother, who later died of cancer from ...

Yesterday, the Idaho Cleanup Project crews successfully transferred about 40 spent nuclear fuel baskets into safer, long term ...

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court rejected challenges to a nuclear waste storage site near Texas’ border with New Mexico, a win for the federal government in a decadeslong struggle over what to ...

The Nuclear Waste Management Organization has launched a two-year engagement process to refine the site selection approach for Canada’s second deep geological repository to manage radioactive ...

WASHINGTON, May 15 (Reuters) - Nuclear waste and radioactive plutonium would be assessed as a fuel for reactors under a draft executive order being considered by the administration of President ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Around the U.S., about 90,000 tons of nuclear waste is stored at over ...

At nuclear waste storage locations near the ocean, that salt spray can settle on the steel canisters. Generally, stainless steel is resistant to corrosion, which you can see in the shiny pots and ...

Permanent nuclear waste storage facilities can take decades to study and build. At its disposal site, Posiva has drilled an array of tunnels spanning a collective 10 kilometers, Tuohimaa said.

They exposed scintillator crystals—a material that emits light when it absorbs radiation—to gamma radiation, which is produced by nuclear waste. The crystals’ light then powered a solar battery.

U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether Texas will host nuclear waste dump By James Osborne, Washington Bureau Updated March 5, 2025 12:27 p.m.

A repository for high level waste would add another strong leg under the state’s claim to nuclear dominance, along with its uranium mines and advanced reactor development projects.