An effort to replace diesel vehicles and equipment at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant with electrical and battery-operated components is underway, part of a broader goal of improving airflow in the ...

A nuclear waste repository must seal in radioactive waste safely for one million years. Researchers currently have to study them and their processes in real underground laboratories but a virtual ...

Understanding that process is crucial as countries worldwide consider underground clay formations for nuclear waste disposal, because clay offers low permeability and high radionuclide retention. Even ...

In a ribbon cutting ceremony yesterday, January 9, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez formally reopened the world’s only operating deep geologic nuclear waste ...

CARLSBAD, N.M. — Workers at the USA's only underground nuclear waste repository stowed two pallets of drums deep underground Wednesday for the first time in nearly three years. Since 1999, the U.S.

Contractors with the Environmental Protection Agency will being work this summer on a repository north of Silverton to permanently store waste removed from mines within the Bonita Peak Mining District ...

Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant on California's central coast has more than 1,300 tons of nuclear waste sitting on its back porch, waiting for pickup. The problem is, there's no one to pick it up.

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

A consortium led by France's Areva has been awarded a contract to design a near-surface repository for low- and intermediate-level waste at Lithuania's Ignalina nuclear power plant. The facility will ...

As with much policy-setting in the Trump administration, a single tweet from the president on February 6 appeared to reverse a previous stance. The message about Yucca Mountain, the nation’s proposed ...

Bulgaria started construction of a national repository for low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste yesterday, marking the occasion with a ceremony. The repository is being built at the Radiana ...

BUTTE, Mont. — Officials involved in the final Superfund cleanup in Butte say they have two options on where to take the mine waste. They need to conduct more studies before a decision is made, but ...