The Department of Energy is looking at a way to speed up Hanford nuclear site environmental cleanup by having some waste with ...

The federal government has a fund of $44.3 billion earmarked for spending on a permanent nuclear waste disposal facility in the United States. It began collecting money from energy customers for the ...

BELLEVILLE, Mich. – In a very spirited press conference, activists and elected officials from the local, state, and national levels emphasized that the state of Michigan is not everyone else’s dumping ...

State regulators said that years of missed cleanup deadlines for the toxic by-products from the Cold War era are increasing the risks of nuclear contamination. With the recent expiration of the ...

The UK Treasury has branded a proposed underground nuclear waste repository in Cumbria as “unachievable,” drawing sharp ...

As we continue to agonize over the fate of highly radioactive nuclear waste — and local cities throw their weight behind an effort to move San Onofre’s to higher ground on Camp Pendleton — we’d like ...

Nelson’s appointment comes as Deep Isolation accelerates its momentum. Just weeks after launching its full-scale demonstration program at the Deep Borehole Demonstration Center near Cameron, Texas, ...

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 ...

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 ...