The Japanese government on Tuesday asked a Tokyo municipality for consent to conduct a survey to determine the suitability of ...

Japan's government has asked permission for a survey to be conducted on an island in the Pacific Ocean to choose a final disposal site for high-level radioactive waste from nuclear power plants.

Minamitorishima Island, about 1,900 kilometers southeast of central Tokyo, has no civilian population, with its only ...

The government is seeking to conduct an initial survey on Minamitorishima island— Japan’s easternmost island — as a possible ...

Mr. Sunseri is a veteran nuclear energy executive and board leader with more than four decades of experience in nuclear plant operations, safety, engineering, and governance. His career has focused on ...

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 ...

By law, the waste currently housed near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant must be moved outside the prefecture by March 2045.

Deep Isolation’s deep borehole technology will deliver a safe, scalable, and cost-effective solution for nuclear waste disposal — addressing the global need to move spent fuel from temporary ...

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

This Collection brings together original research focused on the science and engineering of nuclear waste management and recycling. Topics include characterisation of radionuclide behaviour, modelling ...

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, ...

London/Washington — The Trump administration's plan to unleash a wave of small futuristic nuclear reactors to power the AI era is falling back on an age-old strategy to dispose of the highly toxic ...