The United States has roughly 90,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel sitting in temporary storage at reactor sites across ...

New Mexico environment officials on Thursday issued new requirements for the federal government’s operation of the nation’s ...

After decades of planning, arguing and engineering, workers at the Hanford nuclear reservation in southeast Washington this ...

US radioactive waste disposal technology developer Deep Isolation has called for nuclear waste disposal to be included in the National Association of State Energy Officials' Advanced Nuclear First ...

Adrian HeddenCarlsbad Current-Argus achedden@currentargus.com The state’s demand that a repository near Carlsbad accept more ...

Nuclear power plants are used primarily to generate electricity, and while they're often thought of as a cleaner energy source, there is a drawback. These power plants produce waste. This waste is ...

Somewhere beneath the pine forests of southwestern Finland, more than 400 meters of ancient rock separate the surface from a ...

To residents, cleanup at a Parks Township nuclear waste dump will look like a few trucks leaving the site every week, said Nicholas Melina, Commander of the Pittsburgh District of the Army Corps of ...

The current push for a nuclear energy revival is not our country’s first rodeo. We’ve seen these promises before, and they’ve rarely lived up to the hype. In the 1950s, Lewis Strauss, the first ...

Construction of Onkalo -- which means "cave" in Finnish -- began on the west coast in 2004. It sits on the secluded island of Olkiluoto, in a dense wooded area. The closest town is Eurajoki, about 9 ...

Finland is weeks from licensing the world's first permanent nuclear waste repository. Here's what it means for the global ...

OLKILUOTO, Finland (AP) — With the push of a button, the elevator descends hundreds of meters in seconds into the dark depths of Onkalo. “We are now at about minus 430 meters (1,411 feet),” muttered ...