Simply stated, nuclear or radioactive waste is the byproduct of nuclear reactors, fuel processing and reprocessing, weapon production, medical facilities, and research laboratories.

Techniques such as deep geological repositories offer secure storage solutions, while new materials like synthetic rock provide enhanced containment. These innovations address the critical issue of ...

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 ...

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.

Prep work for removal of Manhattan Project-era radioactive waste begins in Lewiston Dan Telvock is an award-winning investigative producer and reporter who has been part of the News 4 team since 2018.

A federal court said the government’s nuclear power regulator overstepped its authority by granting licenses to a pair of proposed short-term storage facilities for the country’s spent nuclear fuel ...

A private company aims to build a nuclear waste storage facility in West Texas. Trains would likely carry the spent fuel through Fort Worth to the Permian Basin.

A caution sign surrounding the low-level radioactive waste site at Waste Control Specialists (WCS) near Andrews, Texas. WCS provides services to store low-level nuclear waste and is in the process ...

Such waste - which mostly comes from power plants and medical, academic, industrial and other commercial uses of radioactive materials - requires containment and isolation for up to a few hundred ...

The storage and containment of spent nuclear fuel is in fact the crucial unresolved challenge of the U.S. nuclear industry.

A waste management organization has built tunnels will hold spent nuclear waste for 100,000 years to prevent radioactive material from seeping into the environment.