Nuclear waste. We've all heard about it, but what is it? ... After the fuel rods have cooled in the containment pools, they are moved into dry cask storage for about 10 years.

Columnist Teri Sforza writes that the depth of a scrape a on a can of nuclear waste is about technology and skepticism … and ...

In 2024, there were 440 nuclear reactors operating in 32 countries around the world. Even countries without reactors generate nuclear waste from research laboratories, industrial equipment, and ...

Where to move more than 3.5 million pounds of nuclear waste is still a key barrier. ... That would likely be where the containment domes are now, which are set to be removed in the next few years.

A sign warning of radioactive materials is seen on a fence around a nuclear reactor containment building on April 26, 2021, a few days before it stopped generating electricity at Indian Point Energy ...

Right now, nuclear power plants store spent fuel in special containment structures near the reactor. In some locations, the waste remains even after the plant was decommissioned.

The company’s plan for long-term containment of this radioactive waste was not outlined and Tepco was not compelled by the press or the government to explain its long-term strategy.

Rod Baltzer, Chief Executive Officer and President of Waste Control Specialists (WCS) near Andrews, Texas, takes media on a tour of one of their storage sites used for low-level nuclear waste on ...

BUFFALO, N.Y (WIVB) — Contractors are prepping federally owned land in Lewiston to begin removing radioactive waste leftover from the top-secret Manhattan Project to develop the world’s first ...

BUFFALO, N.Y (WIVB) — Contractors are prepping federally owned land in Lewiston to begin removing radioactive waste leftover from the top-secret Manhattan Project to develop the world’s first ...