As Washington's energy industry and lawmakers take another look at nuclear power as a way to reach a carbon-free energy future, a perennial question is reemerging: What happens to the waste? Why it ...

There are over 100 nuclear waste storage sites across the U.S., most located near nuclear plants such as those in Hanford, ...

Japan has identified Minamitorishima, a remote and uninhabited coral atoll in the western Pacific, as a potential site for permanent nuclear waste disposal. The proposal marks the first time the ...

Minamitorishima Island, about 1,900 kilometers southeast of central Tokyo, has no civilian population, with its only ...

CEO Rod Baltzer and Executive VP of Engineering Jesse Sloane to Participate in Discussions and Presentations on Advanced Reactor Waste Management and Global Deep Borehole Disposal Developments ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

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Louise Théodon from ANDRA explores a strategic European Partnership for safe radioactive waste management. In line with the Radioactive Waste Directive 2011/70/Euratom, which est ...

The Japanese government on Tuesday asked a Tokyo municipality for consent to conduct a survey to determine the suitability of ...

The Hanford Tank Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant was built to turn that nuclear waste into glass; it started operating in October 2025. The history of the Hanford Site and the way the stored ...

U.S. scientists are developing an innovation that could reduce nuclear waste storage time by 99.7%, transmuting long-lived radioactive materials into shorter-lived isotopes. The Jefferson Lab project, ...

The conventional approach of waiting for municipalities to volunteer to host final disposal sites for high-level radioactive waste from nuclear power plants has its limitations. If this becomes a ...