An operating permit which is valid until 2095 has been issued by the Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority of Finland for a ...

Nuclear waste is largely misunderstood, thanks to the Cold War and war movies. However, even if nuclear energy is safer than ...

HANFORD, Wash. – The Washington Department of Ecology announced the transportation of the first containers of low activity nuclear waste to the Integrated Disposal Facility at the Hanford site. The ...

The largest generators of low-level radioactive waste in Nebraska are making plans to store the waste near their nuclear power plants when a South Carolina dump site closes its doors July 1. For years ...

Nuclear waste. We've all heard about it, but what is it? Is it a problem without a solution? How big is the problem? And what exactly is this waste and why is it so important? New Atlas takes a look ...

The U.S. Department of Energy is proposing to ship what has long been considered some of the world’s most deadly nuclear waste from South Carolina to burial grounds in the western United States under ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A truck carrying low-level nuclear waste to the Nevada Test Site passed near Chicago, Cleveland, Des Moines and Omaha before its driver discovered a container was damaged, Nevada's ...

The Savannah River Site's liquid nuclear waste contractor is nearing the halfway point in a plan that is expected to save taxpayers $100 million. Savannah River Mission Completion announced recently ...