As countries across the world experience a resurgence in nuclear energy projects, the questions of where and how to dispose ...

The former headquarters of the Manhattan Project, where the world's first atomic bomb was created, is now turning nuclear ...

A self-taught expert, he spent decades working in both nonprofits and the government to expose problems in the production of ...

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 ...

In March, Finland successfully completed the first test of its encapsulation plant, which, if finished, will become the world’s first permanent underground storage facility for radioactive waste.

Letter: Keep waste disposal in mind amid nuclear energy comeback Atomic power is a crucial aspect of America's energy future, but there are issues that must be addressed.

The Supreme Court on June 18 rejected challenges to a nuclear waste storage site on the Texas-New Mexico border.

Nuclear waste haunts Missouri community, but cleanup is far from over This story is part two of a two-part series that examines the effects of nuclear waste contamination in Coldwater Creek on the ...

A 1987 federal law named Yucca Mountain, in Nevada, as a permanent disposal site for nuclear waste – but political and legal challenges led to construction delays.

The Hanford nuclear site's massive vitrification plant could begin treating waste for disposal as soon as this summer.

Oak Ridge researchers are converting nuclear waste into components for targeted alpha therapy, a cancer treatment that ...

I agree wholeheartedly with Rep. Tom Mehaffie’s May 3 commentary (“Bring nuclear jobs back to Pennsylvania”). There can be no doubt that increased nuclear power will create jobs and all the ...