By bundling spent fuel siting with advanced reactor deployment, the Energy Department's nuclear campus plan exposes nuclear ...

With growing interest in nuclear power, handling waste should be part of the deal. Today, nuclear energy enjoys a rare moment ...

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 ...

Bulgaria's national repository for low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste has been officially opened. It is expected to be filled over the next 60 years, and then closed and its contents ...

With one nuclear power plant already under construction, Wyoming will soon be home to high-level nuclear waste storage unless the federal government builds a centralized facility. When TerraPower ...

Japan is proposing a remote Pacific island as a possible host for a nuclear waste-disposal site, an important step in the country’s plans to accelerate the restart of atomic power plants. The local ...

To residents, cleanup at a Parks Township nuclear waste dump will look like a few trucks leaving the site every week, said Nicholas Melin, commander of the Pittsburgh District of the Army Corps of ...