The heat produced by the radioactive waste strikes you when you enter the storage site of Ontario Power Generation at the ...

First glassified Hanford tank waste canisters moved to lined landfill. Integrated Disposal Facility be permanent disposal site for vitrified waste. Landfill can only accept low level radioactive waste ...

For years the U.S. federal government has been saving to invest in a long-term nuclear waste disposal solution. But despite collecting the funds, no clear plan has been made. As we see certain states ...

Nuclear Waste Program's efforts to oversee cleanup of one of the world's most complex nuclear sites. Join us as we look back ...

BARNWELL — Safety and technology are focal points of efforts to contain nuclear waste and prevent environmental damage at the Chem-Nuclear disposal site near Barnwell, the origin of leaked radioactive ...

If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. The IAEA will now have access to a new container for the ...

Containers that the U.S. government plans to use to store dangerous nuclear waste underground may be more vulnerable to water damage than previously thought. Millions of liters of highly radioactive ...

Nuclear waste shipments from northern New Mexico’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad numbered beyond the U.S. Department of Energy goals for the past year ...

More than 20 containers of radioactive zinc have been stranded off the Philippine coast for over than a week and a solution for their disposal is needed "fast," a nuclear official said on Oct. 31.

The United States is looking to ramp up its nuclear energy sector. In September this year, the go-ahead was given for the construction of a dump in West Texas that will act as a disposal site for ...