A nuclear waste repository must seal in radioactive waste safely for one million years. Researchers currently have to study them and their processes in real underground laboratories but a virtual ...

In a ribbon cutting ceremony yesterday, January 9, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez formally reopened the world’s only operating deep geologic nuclear waste ...

A $100 million air shaft at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant nuclear waste repository near Carlsbad reached its planned depth and workers will begin connecting it to the rest of the underground. The ...

LONDON/WASHINGTON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - The Trump administration's plan to unleash a wave of small futuristic nuclear reactors ...

Contractors with the Environmental Protection Agency will being work this summer on a repository north of Silverton to permanently store waste removed from mines within the Bonita Peak Mining District ...

The Nevada Commission on Nuclear Projects is hoping federal efforts to find states willing to host sites that can handle the ...

Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant on California's central coast has more than 1,300 tons of nuclear waste sitting on its back porch, waiting for pickup. The problem is, there's no one to pick it up.

CARLSBAD, N.M. — Workers at the USA's only underground nuclear waste repository stowed two pallets of drums deep underground Wednesday for the first time in nearly three years. Since 1999, the U.S.

Bulgaria started construction of a national repository for low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste yesterday, marking the occasion with a ceremony. The repository is being built at the Radiana ...

A consortium led by France's Areva has been awarded a contract to design a near-surface repository for low- and intermediate-level waste at Lithuania's Ignalina nuclear power plant. The facility will ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nuclear waste shipments to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant repository near Carlsbad were suspended for about two months as workers ...