Nearly 80 years of US nuclear waste is stuck in "temporary" storage sites. How big of a problem is that?

The Advancing Research in Nuclear Fuel Recycling Act of 2025, cosponsored with Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-NM, would require the ...

Sweden is constructing a $1 billion nuclear waste repository located over 500 meters deep in solid bedrock, designed to ...

When Congress selected Yucca Mountain in Nevada to be the nation’s waste repository in 1987, it was a decision based on ...

The construction of Bulgaria’s National Repository for Low- and Intermediate-Level Radioactive Waste is progressing, with ...

Sept. 30 may mark the day communities in Southern California first took initiative to protect themselves from deadly nuclear waste stranded indefinitely.

This is really a historic breakthrough. After decades of effort, we are officially turning nuclear waste into glass at ...

The Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) continues to seek community buy-in for its proposed $26 billion underground waste repository, to be built between Ignace and Wabigoon Lake in ...

A private company that designs and manufactures parts for nuclear reactors has abandoned a project in New Mexico that sought to store nuclear waste from commercial power plants for an unspecified ...

In 1987, Yucca Mountain in Nevada was named the sole U.S. site for a permanent repository of nuclear waste. The Department of Energy confirmed the science behind this decision in 1994. In 2002, ...

The head of the top U.S. nuclear power group said that reprocessing of nuclear waste, a technique that has not been practiced in the United States for decades because of proliferation and cost ...

An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team of experts has found that Hungary demonstrates a strong commitment to nuclear and radiation safety. The team’s review, held from 6 to 17 October, ...