LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (KRQE) — The National Nuclear Security Administration and Los Alamos National Laboratory have finished depressurizing four tritium waste containers that have been in storage since ...

The Savannah River Site has a total of 51 waste tanks. Eight of those tanks have been operationally closed. (From Savannah River Site fact sheet, May 2022, U.S. Department of Energy) Around the U.S., ...

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LONDON/WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s plan to unleash a wave of small futuristic nuclear reactors to power the AI era is falling back on an age-old strategy to dispose of the highly toxic ...

Nuclear power’s dirtiest secret is not how the fuel is made, but where it ends up sitting for decades: in crowded pools of water at the very plants that burned it. The technology to move most of that ...

Tomsk Polytechnic University has been commissioned by Rosatom's fuel division TVEL to create an innovative X-ray machine designed for non-destructive testing of containers with radioactive waste.

WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — The Supreme Court in a 6-3 ruling cleared the way for a West Texas facility to store nuclear waste on Wednesday. Justice Brett Kavanaugh, writing for the court, said Texas ...

U.S. scientists are developing an innovation that could reduce nuclear waste storage time by 99.7%, transmuting long-lived radioactive materials into shorter-lived isotopes. The Jefferson Lab project, ...

In Finland, experts hope they have found a viable solution: burying the waste in bedrock over 1,000 feet underground. More ...

For decades, nuclear energy has been regarded as the black sheep of the energy universe, thanks to drawbacks such as high costs, risk of thermal runaway leading to catastrophic accidents as well as ...