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 ...

Germany has begun a controversial series of nuclear waste transports in its most populous state, North Rhine-Westphalia, a ...

A major joint initiative to develop standardised radioactive waste container design and procurement across the UK's Nuclear ...

A major joint initiative to develop standardised radioactive waste container design and procurement across the Nuclear ...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (KRQE) — The National Nuclear Security Administration and Los Alamos National Laboratory are working to safely depressurize four containers holding nuclear waste that have been in ...

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., ...

Liquid-fueled molten-salt reactors, another new type, could increase waste volume too. In these designs, fuel and coolant are ...

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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 ...

Around the U.S., about 90,000 tons of nuclear waste is stored at more than 100 sites in 39 states, in a range of different structures and containers. For decades, the nation has been trying to send it ...