The High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Committee is holding its first meeting since its launch and is formally beginning work to construct ...

Japan has identified Minamitorishima, a remote and uninhabited coral atoll in the western Pacific, as a potential site for permanent nuclear waste disposal. The proposal marks the first time the ...

Halliburton (NYSE:HAL) has joined a deep borehole demonstration program for nuclear waste disposal alongside Deep Isolation and other partners. The project focuses on testing drilling and disposal ...

An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team of experts has completed a follow-up mission to assess Spain’s progress in implementing the recommendations and suggestions made during a review of ...

The Federal Company for Radioactive Waste Disposal and the Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management have both submitted proposals to the government for speeding up the process of ...

The development and use of nuclear technology, which began in the early 1940s, has produced a substantial inventory of radioactive waste— material with no current or currently known future use. The ...

This Research Topic presents the state of the art achieved after about 40 years of research in several selected thematic fields of radioactive waste management and disposal. Research in this area has ...

South Carolina is making a pitch for a federally-backed nuclear fuel and technology campus in the Palmetto State. Nuclear opponents argue it’s an impractical waste of time and money that ...

WEST ODESSA, Texas — The U.S. Supreme Court has cleared a significant hurdle in a long-stalled plan to temporarily store high-level nuclear waste in Andrews County, Texas, and Lea County, New Mexico — ...

The UK Treasury has branded a proposed underground nuclear waste repository in Cumbria as “unachievable,” drawing sharp ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A truck delivers a container to the low-level waste vaults at the Dounreay nuclear site in Dounreay, Scotland, Britain November 25 ...

Potential impacts on ground-water, tourism, mental health, as well as the prospect of truck crashes involving radioactive materials, are among a myriad of concerns being formally raised in response to ...