Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first containers of glassified Hanford tank waste have been delivered to their final destination, the Integrated Disposal ...

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 waste has become a kind of cultural shorthand for everything people fear about atomic power, from glowing green sludge to warnings that we are burdening distant descendants with our mistakes.

The presence of 3.55 million pounds of nuclear waste stored “temporarily” at the San Onofre nuclear power plant — which was permanently shut down in 2013 after severe problems with key plant equipment ...

The heat produced by the radioactive waste strikes you when you enter the storage site of Ontario Power Generation at the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station, near the shore of Lake Huron in Ontario.

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 ...

Billions of alkaline-loving microbes could offer a new way to protect nuclear waste buried deep underground. This approach overcomes the limitations of current cement barriers, which can crack or ...

When nuclear power is used to generate electricity, a small amount of waste is created in the process. Because nuclear fuel is dense, only a small amount is needed to produce massive amounts of ...

Hydrogen has long been regarded as a clean fuel that has the potential to move the world away from fossil fuel-based energy. It contains a high energy density per unit weight and produces only water ...

First glassified Hanford tank waste canisters moved to lined landfill. Integrated Disposal Facility be permanent disposal site for vitrified waste. Landfill can only accept low level radioactive waste ...