With growing interest in nuclear power, handling waste should be part of the deal. Today, nuclear energy enjoys a rare moment ...
WASHINGTON - A presidential commission looking for safe ways to dispose of the nation's nuclear waste said Friday it is considering a plan to build one or more storage sites to replace a long-planned ...
Sweden is constructing a $1 billion nuclear waste repository located over 500 meters deep in solid bedrock, designed to securely store the nation's nuclear waste for the next 100,000 years. This ...
Finland's Posiva is on the verge of receiving an operating license for the world's first permanent nuclear waste disposal facility, built 400 meters underground in 1.9-billion-year-old bedrock at a ...
After decades of cancer cases and public outcry, the federal government this week will begin the long-awaited cleanup of a nuclear waste dump in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. The site in Parks ...
New Mexico environment officials on Thursday issued new requirements for the federal government’s operation of the nation’s ...
With the chosen deep geological repository site for Canada’s used nuclear fuel in Northwestern Ontario undergoing a ...
OLKILUOTO, Finland — With the push of a button, the elevator descends hundreds of meters in seconds into the dark depths of Onkalo. “We are now at about minus 430 meters (1,411 feet),” muttered ...
This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Finland is set to open Onkalo, the world’s first permanent facility for storing spent nuclear fuel, built 430 ...