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

For almost half a century, New Jersey regulated new nuclear reactors to death. This is no exaggeration: In 1977, the state added requirements for such plants to dispose of nuclear waste in a permanent ...

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

Roughly half of US states responded to the Department of Energy’s effort to gauge their interest in hosting “nuclear ...

The first 7.5-ton container of radioactive waste turned into a stable glass form was carefully set on the bottom of a vast ...

New Jersey has become the sixth state in the last decade, and the second this year, to fully repeal its moratorium on ...

Deep Isolation, a California-based nuclear waste disposal startup, announced it has completed a federally funded project that produced and physically tested a prototype canister designed to safely ...

The first 7.5-ton container of radioactive waste turned into a stable glass form was carefully set on the bottom of a vast ...

Based in San Luis Obispo County, the PG&E facility is given a 20-year permit by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

In January, the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada (IAAC) initiated an assessment of a proposed nuclear waste repository in northwestern Ontario. The repository is being advanced by the Nuclear Waste ...

The world’s first permanent underground repository for spent nuclear fuel is nearing operations in ...

The world-first facility for permanently disposing spent nuclear fuel is set to begin operations in Finland after decades of ...