Capping the Repository site will see an engineered cap of aggregate and other specially-sourced materials installed over the legacy trenches and vaults when closed. This cap will permanently protect ...

The case could establish the nation’s first independent repository for spent nuclear fuel in West Texas, despite the ...

Scientists use light-emitting crystals and solar panels to turn the latent energy in nuclear waste into microbatteries.

Where to store AUKUS nuclear waste from submarines is an enormous decision, but those making it seem happy to abandon the ...

Texas is taking a fight over the country's nuclear waste to the Supreme Court. The issue, a Not In My Backyard dilemma involving toxic radioactive nuclear waste, has been swirling for decades. The ...

The Supreme Court will consider a dispute over the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's license allowing thousands of metric ...

South Korea's National Assembly has passed an act that stipulates the construction of interim storage facilities for ...

Meanwhile, spent fuel continues to build up at nuclear facilities. More than 90,000 metric tons of high-level waste awaits disposal, according to the Government Accountability Office. The federal ...

The US Supreme Court’s dive Wednesday into the seemingly straightforward question of who can challenge an agency decision on ...

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 ...