“The next step is the 10-year regulatory decision-making process,” a regional Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) spokesman said last week in an email. “This rigorous process will ...

In the dark of night they gathered, pointing out trains packed with nuclear waste heading to the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) for treatment and storage. Some Idahoans called foul, creating the ...

Some 2,000 gallons of radioactive and hazardous chemical waste that had been stored in underground tanks has been shipped off the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington for disposal after it ...

Some 2,000 gallons of radioactive and hazardous chemical waste that had been stored in underground tanks has been shipped off the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington for disposal after it ...

Some designs can even reuse nuclear waste, reducing how long it needs to be stored safely. Even further in the future, nuclear fusion – the same process that powers the sun – could offer clean ...

EXCLUSIVE: There is no permanent disposal site for high-level nuclear waste in the United States, hard as that may be to grasp. “The nation has over 90,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel from ...

Despite the dangers being dismissed by Labor and the Coalition, Caldicott remains concerned about nuclear waste being improperly stored in Australia and contaminating water supplies – or even a ...

Although the proposal from the Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Japan (NUMO) was partially revised, the ministry intends to proceed, as planned, to the second phase, called “gaiyo chosa ...

“The Coalition didn’t tell the people of Lithgow that they were actually planning to store the nuclear waste in Lithgow.” One ex-Coalition parliamentarian who asked not to be named in order ...

The site manages more radioactive waste in one place than any other nuclear facility in the world, according to planning documents. The project was approved in 2023 and an application has now been ...