State officials aren't convinced DOE's plan would result in more Hanford site waste treated for disposal.

The first 7.5-ton container of radioactive waste turned into a stable glass form was carefully set on the bottom of a vast new landfill at Hanford in Eastern Washington Wednesday, its permanent ...

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 ...

Finland is preparing to clear one of the final regulatory hurdles for what is ...

OLKILUOTO, Finland -- With the push of a button, the elevator descends hundreds of feet in seconds into the dark depths of Onkalo. "We are now at about minus 1,411 feet," muttered geologist Tuomas ...

India, June 4 -- For decades, countries that rely on nuclear power have faced one major challenge: what to do with highly radioactive waste that remains dangerous for thousands of years.

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 ...

Finland's Posiva is on the verge of receiving an operating license for the world's first permanent nuclear waste disposal facility, built 400 meters underground in 1.9-billion-year-old bedrock at a ...

This question has long been nuclear energy’s Achilles’ heel, fueling public opposition and stifling a uniquely beneficial clean energy resource. Opponents frame nuclear waste management as a technical ...

Deep Isolation Nuclear, an innovator in nuclear waste disposal technology, on January 13 said the company has successfully completed its Project SAVANT (Sequential Advancement of Technology for Deep ...