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 ...

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 ...

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

Glassified radioactive waste is going into a lined landfill at Hanford.

A new think tank assessment argues that economics, proliferation concerns, and waste management barriers have shifted enough to make commercial nuclear fuel recycling viable in the U.S.—but only if ...

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 ...

With the chosen deep geological repository site for Canada’s used nuclear fuel in Northwestern Ontario undergoing a multi-year regulatory decision-making process, the Nuclear Waste Management ...

Russia put into operation its first near-surface final nuclear waste repository for solid low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste in 2016 in Novouralsk. A public event was told its first decade ...

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