A massive building, already partially built at the Hanford nuclear reservation’s vitrification plant, may not be needed after all. The facility was expected to prepare the site’s most radioactive ...

Japan has begun a geological survey on Minamitori Island, a remote Pacific atoll roughly ...

John Ward, operations project task manager at Waste Control Specialists’ facility near Andrews, Texas, is pictured in 2017 inspecting concrete canisters that will house drums of nuclear waste. David ...

The Biden administration has affirmed a Trump administration interpretation of high-level radioactive waste that is based on the waste’s radioactivity rather than how it was produced. The U.S.

ANDREWS COUNTY, Texas — In Andrews County, Waste Control Specialists (WCS) is in the process of applying for a permit from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to become an interim storage site for ...

Topline: The federal government is so prone to excessive spending that it is even wasting money on waste itself. The ...

There has been, for decades, a worldwide consensus in the nuclear technical community for disposal through geological isolation of high-level waste (HLW), including spent nuclear fuel (SNF). 1 However ...

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The first consignment of solid high-level waste belonging to Sellafield's Japanese customers has safely arrived in Japan from the UK following a journey by ship of over six weeks. The waste arose from ...