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

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 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 ...

Scandinavian countries are pioneering deep geological storage solutions to safely manage nuclear waste and support the global ...

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

Three areas have been shortlisted to host a nuclear waste disposal site. Communities in Mid Copeland and South Copeland in ...

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.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday debated how to dispose of the nation’s nuclear waste as Texas tried to persuade the justices to block a storage site near ... debate over the disposal of spent ...

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 ...