This means utilities must secure radioactive waste disposal sites to finish their decommissioning programs, even though nuclear plant operators typically estimate reactor closures take 30 to 40 ...

This summer the Hanford vitrification plant, where construction started in 2002, is expected to begin turning some of the least radioactive tank waste into a stable glass form for disposal at Hanford.

The nuclear waste - which was never meant to be removed - is now being taken out of the plant which is described ... "There was no alternative disposal route for contaminated material, so ...

The first of its kind waste-to-energy plant at Bidadi in Karnataka is designed to use dry waste to generate up to 11.5 MW of electricity every day. The plant is a joint venture of Karnataka Power ...

Around the U.S., about 90,000 tons of nuclear waste is stored at over 100 sites ... also on the power plant’s property. These vaults have vents to ensure air flows past the canisters to continue ...