This new tech addresses a major problem in the industry. Scientists propose revolutionary method to deal with radioactive ...

Sweden is constructing a $1 billion nuclear waste repository located over 500 meters deep in solid bedrock, designed to ...

Countries around the globe largely store and dispose of the nuclear waste in a similar fashion. Containers with high-level radioactive waste stand in interim storage in Lower Saxony, Germany, Dec ...

Nuclear waste disposal causes controversy of its own. The government initially planned to bury its long-term nuclear waste — which can be radioactive for 100,000 years — deep in mines ...

DOE is trying to change the rules on nuclear waste disposal. For the better. Instead of the old top-down decision-making, DOE is going to implement a consent-based strategy. So instead of ordering ...

Nuclear waste disposal is compounded by an unfortunate fact: Even countries with established nuclear programs do not have permanent repositories for spent nuclear fuel and high-level waste.

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Concerns were raised by government watchdog groups for a plan to dispose of Cold War nuclear waste at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant repository in southeast New Mexico, as the federal government ...

The Waste Isolation Pilot Plan disposes of nuclear waste via burial at a facility about 30 miles east of Carlsbad. ... longevity of nuclear waste disposal near Carlsbad debated amid permit renewal.

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