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

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 ...

Virginia-based Jefferson Lab is leading a project to transform nuclear waste into usable electricity while also drastically reducing its radioactive life.

A multimillion-dollar government project is betting that particle accelerators can "burn" through the world's most dangerous ...

The island is surrounded by a coral atoll and is only 0.6 miles wide. Nuclear power is on the rise around the world, but with it comes an extremely pressing question: where will all of the radioactive ...

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 ...

Some 3.55 million pounds of nuclear waste is beached at San Onofre. The spent fuel held in more than 120 stainless steel canisters at the now-shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, lodged ...

High-level spent nuclear fuel would be prohibited from being stored in New Mexico if lawmakers pass a pair of bills introduced during this year’s legislative session. The bicameral effort comes as ...

The Department of Energy on Wednesday signed the paperwork needed to allow radioactive waste to be pumped into the Hanford nuclear site’s vitrification plant 23 years after construction began, said ...

Japan is looking into using a remote deserted Pacific island nearly 2,000 kilometers (1,250 miles) from Tokyo as a site for ...

London/Washington — The Trump administration's plan to unleash a wave of small futuristic nuclear reactors to power the AI era is falling back on an age-old strategy to dispose of the highly toxic ...