Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Police vehicles are parked at Philippsburg station as a train with containers carrying highly radioactive nuclear waste arrives in ...

The National Academies initiated this study to examine the risks and identify key current and future technical and societal concerns for the transport of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive ...

Welcome to the “Let’s Blow Up A Transportation Overpack for Nuclear Waste” show! This show is in development by the U.S. Department of Energy, has a budget of about $10 million, and aims to ease the ...

Congress and the president have finally jumped through all the prescribed hoops to officially approve Yucca Mountain, Nev., as the country’s first permanent high-level nuclear waste repository. The ...

Nebraska’s $2,000 charge for transporting nuclear waste across the state is set to go up this year, likely in time to catch at least the end of an expected 30 radioactive shipments headed to New ...

SPOKANE, Wash. - Mayor Lisa Brown is pushing back against plans to send untreated liquid waste from the Hanford Nuclear Site through Spokane, citing risks to residents and the environment. The City of ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown has formally opposed the U.S. Department of Energy's plan to transport liquid radioactive waste through the city, according to a letter sent Thursday from the ...

The province planned to move the mine tailings from Nipissing First Nation to outside Sudbury, Ont., but its lack of ...

Hundreds of 55-gallon drums filled with low-level radioactive waste have sat buried or stored at a site in western ...

A transport of four containers carrying highly radioactive nuclear waste from abroad travelled through Germany for the first time in four years on Wednesday. The train reached an storage facility in ...