Galison is also co-director of "Containment," a documentary on nuclear waste storage airing Monday at 11 p.m. on KPBS-TV.

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 ...

The United States has more than 90,000 metric tons of nuclear waste that under existing law legally requires long-term disposal in expensive, geologically deep containment facilities.

Containment is a new film by Robb Moss and Peter Galison that explores how radioactive waste from weapons and power plants ... In 2014, radioactive waste spilled out from the plant during an ...

A 2012 photo of Big Rock Point near Charlevoix, Mich., where the former nuclear plant operated from 1962 to 1997. The site is closest of any nuclear generating site in the Great Lakes basin to ...

Years before the nuclear plant disasters at Three Mile Island in 1979, Chernobyl in the Ukraine in 1986, and Fukushima in Japan in 2011, hopes were that nuclear power could be clean and safe.

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 ...

Feb. 16, 2024 — Nuclear power is considered one of the ways to reduce dependence on fossil fuels, but how to deal with nuclear waste products is a concern. Radioactive waste products can be ...

Nuclear waste managers may have found a path forward for a contaminated drum of nuclear waste left stranded in the parking lot of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant for almost a year.. The drum sent ...

This action is considered long overdue because the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 required the federal government to remove the radioactive waste from sites including Maine Yankee by 1998, but ...

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 ...