The Capitol: home to the US House of Representatives and Senate (Image: Architect of the Capitol) The two versions of the draft legislation, HR 2699 and S 2197, which are both titled the Nuclear Waste ...

Waste become a problem. A deep-underground waste repository wasn’t always the preferred solution for dealing with US high-level waste. Before 1975, when the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) was split ...

Trump administration reverses on plan to close nuclear waste site management office, ... manage the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant — an underground storage facility for defense-related nuclear waste.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Nuclear waste and radioactive plutonium would be assessed as a fuel for reactors under a draft executive order being considered by the administration of President Donald ...

Around the U.S., about 90,000 tons of nuclear waste is stored at more than 100 sites in 39 states, in a range of different structures and containers.