The first-ever 'tomb' for nuclear waste, located nearly 1,500 feet below the surface, will soon be sealed off from humans for 100,000 years to break down safely. Finland's $4 billion Onkalo ...

Cañon City in southern Colorado is still dealing with the fallout of radioactive contamination from decades ago. A nuclear ...

Swedish radioactive waste management company Svensk Kärnbränslehantering (SKB) has begun excavation works to extend its Final ...

Columnist Teri Sforza writes that a demonstration project aims to showcase the safety of transporting highly radioactive waste.

Nuclear plant operators have decided to decommission ... For decades, Japan has been unable to secure a final disposal site for such waste inside the country, mainly because of opposition from ...

This time its storage for nuclear waste from its own nuclear industry—storage that is supposed to last 100,000 years. Nuclear power currently provides 40 percent of Sweden's electricity from six ...

An innovative effort to redefine nuclear waste management in the European Union has been launched. The "MaLaR – Novel 2D-3D Materials for Lanthanide Recovery from Nuclear Waste" project will use novel ...

which gives the scene a yellow tint Which rural area will take the UK's nuclear waste? Inside the 'town' behind Sellafield's security fence When spent nuclear fuel is separated it into its ...

Nuclear is the unknowable. People don't know about it." Critics of nuclear energy have raised questions about waste disposal. Nuclear waste looks far different from the barrels filled with glowing ...

The practice stopped, as it was decided that high-level radioactive and low-level radioactive waste would be temporarily stored inside nuclear power plants. The government had also agreed to relocate ...

The Energy Secretary was urged to reconsider the Government’s decision on Friday, with industry figures arguing that the stockpile, which has been classed as dangerous nuclear waste, could be ...