After decades of construction, the world’s first facility for permanently disposing spent nuclear fuel is set to begin ...

The first 7.5-ton container of radioactive waste turned into a stable glass form was carefully set on the bottom of a vast ...

Built deep inside 1.9 billion-year-old bedrock, the facility, known as the Onkalo nuclear waste repository, is designed to ...

Tennessee’s leaders are weighing a plan to store the nation’s nuclear waste in the Volunteer State.

S1: Welcome in San Diego. It's Jade Hindman. On today's show , we'll tell you about plans for San Onofre spent nuclear waste. This is KPBS Midday Edition. Connecting our communities through ...

One of the highest-risk components of nuclear waste is iodine-129 (I-129), which stays radioactive for millions of years and accumulates in human thyroids when ingested. In the U.S., nuclear waste ...

Nuclear Waste Services says that it has selected areas for detailed studies of suitability within each of the three communities involved in the process of selecting a site for the permanent deep ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday debated how to dispose of the nation’s nuclear waste as Texas tried to persuade the justices to block a storage site near the state’s border with New Mexico. But the ...