The world-first facility for permanently disposing spent nuclear fuel is set to begin operations in Finland after decades of ...

After decades of planning, arguing and engineering, workers at the Hanford nuclear reservation in southeast Washington this ...

In Finland, experts hope they have found a viable solution: burying the waste in bedrock over 1,000 feet underground. More ...

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

Finland is weeks from licensing the world's first permanent nuclear waste repository. Here's what it means for the global ...

Japan is proposing a remote Pacific island as a possible host for a nuclear waste-disposal site, an important step in the ...

Vacant apartments in Missouri are the latest site where radioactive contamination was found. It's tied to improper disposal ...

The United States has roughly 90,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel sitting in temporary storage at reactor sites across ...

The mayor of a Japanese island chain in the Pacific has effectively expressed his intention to accept a first-stage survey to choose a final disposal site for high-level radioactive waste on one of ...

Gov. Mikie Sherrill signed a nuclear regulatory bill on Wednesday that she says will effectively lift a 40-year moratorium on ...

The central government is searching for a permanent disposal site for radioactive waste from Japan's nuclear power plants.

With the push of a button, the elevator descends hundreds of meters in seconds into the dark depths of Onkalo. “We are now at ...