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

The primary activities at WIPP involve the disposal of transuranic (TRU) nuclear waste from DOE sites around the country via burial in a salt deposit about 2,000 feet underground. SIMCO will take ...

The decades-long struggle to find a permanent place to dispose of nuclear waste will continue, probably for many years to come.

Even if the U.S. starts today, it will take decades to site, design and build a facility for disposal of its nuclear waste stockpile. That process must accelerate now, before the reactors we need ...

The report, called “bunken chosa” (literature survey), or reviews of geological maps and research ... unsuitable for nuclear waste disposal might remain candidate sites until the end.

A government agency says it is "considering other options" for the location of a nuclear waste disposal site on the Lincolnshire coast. Nuclear Waste Services' (NWS) plans for a geological ...