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 ...

Buried beneath the ground, in storage tanks, are 56 million gallons of radioactive waste. Many of them are leaking into the ground. According to NBC, some nuclear experts have said Hanford is "an ...

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 ...

Fast neutron reactors can increase efficiency of nuclear energy and shrink the environmental footprint of radioactive waste. Several countries are looking to these innovative reactors to help ensure a ...

An curved arrow pointing right. In 1987, Nevada's Yucca Mountain was designated as the place to store America's nuclear waste. Millions of dollars went into researching the mountain and developing ...

And eventually, the uranium reaction fizzles out, leaving nuclear waste – which is really hard to get rid of. A tiny particle called a neutron is fired at the uranium. This splits one of the ...

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 ...

Prior to 1996, low-level radioactive nuclear waste was delivered to the outlying island off the east coast to be stored there. The practice stopped, as it was decided that high-level radioactive and ...

Turns out that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s process ... U.S. Department of Energy And, of course, the waste canisters inside the overpacks will not contain real spent fuel — but they ...

The final disposal facility will be constructed more than 300 meters deep underground to house inside bedrock high-level radioactive waste that is generated when spent nuclear fuel is reprocessed ...