The world-first facility for permanently disposing spent nuclear fuel is set to begin operations in Finland after decades of ...

Liquid-fueled molten-salt reactors, another new type, could increase waste volume too. In these designs, fuel and coolant are ...

A robust, federally supported recycling program could reduce volumes of long-lived radioactive waste from the civilian nuclear power fleet by more than 95%, according to the Energy Innovation Reform ...

Russia put into operation its first near-surface final nuclear waste repository for solid low- and intermediate-level ...

Finland's Onkalo facility, the world's first permanent nuclear waste repository, is nearing operational status, designed to ...

The federal government has a fund of $44.3 billion earmarked for spending on a permanent nuclear waste disposal facility in the United States. It began collecting money from energy customers for the ...

North Dakota lawmakers are studying radioactive waste storage as the state considers nuclear energy, which is a decade away.

In January, the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada (IAAC) initiated an assessment of a proposed nuclear waste repository in northwestern Ontario. The repository is being advanced by the Nuclear Waste ...

Recent reports of Japan exploring the feasibility of using the remote Pacific island of Minamitorishima as a final disposal site for high-level radioactive waste have raised concern at home and abroad ...

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The State Enterprise for Radioactive Waste says that construction of Bulgaria's national repository for low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste has been issued with a certificate confirming the ...

WASHINGTON - Congress was warned Tuesday that the failure to build the planned Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada could delay licensing of the country's first new nuclear power plants ...