Draft legislation to update the US Department of Energy's ability to manage nuclear waste - passed by the House Energy and Commerce Committee yesterday - would allow DOE to build and operate interim ...

With nuclear waste piling up and an underground repository nowhere in sight, Congress must act to unlock temporary surface storage and stop the stalemate.

The cast blank will next be transferred to the sawing process, where its front and rear ends are sawn to measure, and official sample slices are cut for a material analysis. Onkalo is the world’s ...

US team develops scalable, safe nuclear fuel recycling using advanced tech to cut waste and boost energy recovery.

(THE CONVERSATION) Around the U.S., about 90,000 tons of nuclear waste is stored at over 100 sites in 39 states, in a range of different structures and containers. Remnants of the chemical processing ...

The project aims to reduce the nuclear fuel mass by 28 times, which is roughly equivalent “to shrinking a large swimming pool filled with used fuel down to the size of a small hot tub.

Scandinavian countries are pioneering deep geological storage solutions to safely manage nuclear waste and support the global shift to cleaner energy.

Sam Brinton, deputy assistant secretary of spent fuel and waste disposition in the Office of Nuclear Energy, has now been twice accused of stealing luggage from airports.

The Nuclear Waste Management Organization has launched a two-year engagement process to refine the site selection approach for Canada’s second deep geological repository to manage radioactive ...

The amendment only addresses high-level radioactive waste, he said, and "still allows the US and UK to dump intermediate-level waste, and Australian high-level waste, anywhere in Australia".

Moltex Energy Canada Inc. (Moltex) has developed a game changing nuclear waste management technology. Its Waste to Stable Salt (WATSS) process transforms used nuclear fuel into a valuable asset ...

A Trump victory could revive America’s nuclear weapons testing program in Southern Nevada and the stalled effort to bury radioactive waste at Yucca.