"There's no good option, but it's important to find the least bad option." ...

The first 7.5-ton container of radioactive waste turned into a stable glass form was carefully set on the bottom of a vast ...

Liquid-fueled molten-salt reactors, another new type, could increase waste volume too. In these designs, fuel and coolant are not kept separate as in most reactors; instead, the fuel is dissolved ...

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Finland’s Onkalo repository is nearing approval as the world’s first permanent underground nuclear waste storage site, ...

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 ...

Nuclear energy isn't exactly clean, with nuclear waste never exactly going away. But this inventive new process might help ...

HANFORD, Wash. – The Washington Department of Ecology announced the transportation of the first containers of low activity nuclear waste to the Integrated Disposal Facility at the Hanford site. The ...

A major joint initiative to develop standardised radioactive waste container design and procurement across the UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority estate is expected to produce significant ...

Facilities that work with radioactive materials require practical solutions for small quantities of isotopes and radioactive waste.

Sellafield Ltd. needed to verify the integrity of their waste containers intended for the storage of problematic waste, ...