Engineers have selected the site for its geological stability, absence of resources, and buy-in from Indigenous groups.

Potential impacts on ground-water, tourism, mental health, as well as the prospect of truck crashes involving radioactive materials, are among a myriad of concerns being formally raised in response to ...

The NDA has published its fifth long-term strategy outlining the safe decommissioning and management of the UK’s nuclear ...

U.S. scientists are developing an innovation that could reduce nuclear waste storage time by 99.7%, transmuting long-lived radioactive materials into shorter-lived isotopes.

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

State officials are demanding changes in the federal government’s procedures for disposing of nuclear waste at a repository near Carlsbad.

Researchers aim to transmute long-lived nuclear waste into shorter-lived materials while generating additional carbon-free electricity for the US power grid.

State environment agency also ordered revise of the estimated 25,000-acre DOE site's disposal permit for WIPP—the N.M.underground repository for federal transuranic waste—to increase the volume of ...

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, ...

The justices rebuffed a petition from an anti-nuclear group that had asked the court to address temporary waste storage. The Supreme Court rejected Monday a pair of energy cases that had asked the ...

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