DOE has the ability to do something that is safer," said Nathan Anderson, director for natural resources and environment at GAO.

New Atlas takes a look at the basics ... Just 500 rem/hour is enough to kill a human being. Unlike many non-nuclear waste products like arsenic or asbestos, nuclear waste changes over time ...

“How much more nuclear waste can we continue to store in a living ... New Mexico or Texas have been. “What consent looks like will be different in different places,” Verma said.

Microreactors, a new form of nuclear technology, are being touted for their lower costs and smaller size, but they produce a significantly higher volume of nuclear waste. Despite concerns about ...

Spent fuel — radioactive waste — must be stored ... we're going to need to look to other sources." Along with advancements in solar and wind power, nuclear power is a very good option ...

said Neil Hyatt, Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK’s Nuclear Waste Services (NWS). ‘Well, look at the track record ... Selecting a site is complicated – like everything else in this story ...

Nuclear waste remains toxic for thousands of years ... On a computer screen, the plan for any GDF like this looks like a huge, multi-level nuclear shelter. But the process of designing ...

But nuclear energy brings plenty of risks: the waste it produces is dangerously radioactive, reactors are expensive and past accidents like those ... got even more if you look internationally.

A byproduct of nuclear fission is heat. The Aurora is equipped with waste heat utilization components ... the size of a small house that looks much more like a miniaturized fancy alpine ski ...

It looks like a huge dug-out concrete car park ... Martin Walkingshaw, chief operating officer for Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) which looks after the LLWR site, says he is "disappointed" to ...