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 ...

A large amount of accumulated nuclear waste is stored in various containers and facilities at more than 100 sites in 39 ...

These heavy metal doors mark the beginning of the area where the nuclear waste will be held. Around me were thousands and thousands of feet of rock like this ... shafts will look a bit different ...

There was much discussion about equity and justice and what “consent” actually looks like. Everyone hopes ... end of the fuel cycle. Tons of nuclear waste has been piling up at more than ...

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 ...

The Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation, or NUMEC, buried low-level radioactive waste on 44 acres at the intersection ...

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.