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 ...

The Waste Control Specialists site in Andrews County in West Texas, where radioactive and hazardous waste is stored, in 2021. (Eli Hartman For The Texas Tribune, Eli Hartman For The Texas Tribune) ...

It is common for nuclear engineers to be concerned with the disposition of nuclear waste. After all, the United States alone currently has about 90,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel stored in ...

As we continue to agonize over the fate of highly radioactive nuclear waste — and local cities throw their weight behind an effort to move San Onofre’s to higher ground on Camp Pendleton — we’d like ...

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — A Utah-based company plans to ship international radioactive nuclear waste from Canada to the United States for disposal in Utah. EnergySolutions has proposed moving more than ...

First glassified Hanford tank waste canisters moved to lined landfill. Integrated Disposal Facility be permanent disposal site for vitrified waste. Landfill can only accept low level radioactive waste ...

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 ...

The state of Tennessee has submitted a proposal to the U.S. Department of Energy arguing Oak Ridge is the premier site for a nuclear campus that would likely include radioactive waste disposal. The ...

ALMATY – Kazakhstan’s lower chamber of parliament, the Mazhilis, approved in the first reading a draft law on radioactive ...