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

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

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

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

The federal government says the Texas plaintiffs are misreading the law in a way that would disrupt the nuclear power ...

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

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 ...

State attorneys are set to argue the Nuclear Regulatory Commission erred in issuing a license for a temporary nuclear waste ...

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 ...

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.

Currently, thousands of tons of high-level radioactive waste are stored on site at nuclear power plants across the country, awaiting a permanent national disposal site, which federal authorities ...