The Semipalatinsk Test Site, also called the Polygon, is lesser known but was used by the Soviet Union to test nuclear ...

The federal government hopes former coal towns will help the nuclear industry grow, by taking on the decades-long challenge of storing radioactive waste ...

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Then, three years ago, the DOE began asking for public feedback on this issue of nuclear waste storage. The agency received hundreds of responses. One theme rose to the top: Mistrust. A group called ...

They noted that the federal government has tried and failed for decades to establish a permanent nuclear waste repository that would give some legitimacy to the “temporary” storage concept.

Despite growing support for nuclear energy nationally ... stockpile of spent nuclear fuel waste, some lawmakers say. House Bill 16, “Used nuclear fuel storage-amendments,” touted by its ...

The storage and ... new kinds of complex waste, or just more waste, period.” Elsewhere, Macfarlane stressed the procedural and practical difficulties faced by novel nuclear reactor technologies ...

with longstanding concerns including radioactive contamination and nuclear waste storage. It has also intervened in the licensing process for the restart. Kamps said if necessary, they will take ...

The Office for Nuclear Regulation said no-one was injured but there could have been serious consequences. The nuclear watchdog has issued an improvement notice after two railway wagons carrying ...

They noted that the federal government has tried and failed for decades to establish a permanent nuclear waste repository that would give some legitimacy to the “temporary” storage concept. “This ...

there are simply too many concerns to entertain the possibility of opening the state to the country’s growing stockpile of spent nuclear fuel waste, some lawmakers say.