Somewhere beneath the pine forests of southwestern Finland, more than 400 meters of ancient rock separate the surface from a ...

The United States has roughly 90,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel sitting in temporary storage at reactor sites across ...

The Department of Energy will likely work with Congress to revise federal statute stipulating where nuclear waste should be ...

A proposed uranium project on the Nevada/Oregon border is drawing national attention, with the potential to bring jobs to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Houses stand in the marsh in front of Seabrook Station nuclear power plant. (Photo by Molly Rains/New Hampshire Bulletin) In New ...

In this episode of C&EN Uncovered, host Craig Bettenhausen speaks with C&EN assistant editor Fionna Samuels about the use of vitrification to safely store nuclear waste at a former weapons site in ...

New Mexico environment officials on Thursday issued new requirements for the federal government’s operation of the nation’s ...

Finland is weeks from licensing the world's first permanent nuclear waste repository. Here's what it means for the global ...

The federal government will begin the long-awaited cleanup of a nuclear waste dump outside Apollo in Armstrong County.

With the chosen deep geological repository site for Canada’s used nuclear fuel in Northwestern Ontario undergoing a ...

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Geologist Tuomas Pere walks down a disposal tunnel inside the Posiva Onkalo nuclear waste repository on the island of Olkiluoto, Finland, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026. A trial copper casing is placed at ...