The first-ever 'tomb' for nuclear waste, located nearly 1,500 feet below the surface, will soon be sealed off from humans for 100,000 years to break down safely. Finland's $4 billion Onkalo ...

The federal government hopes former coal towns will help the nuclear industry grow, by taking on the decades-long challenge ...

Cram thousands of them in servers inside a data center ... Given the dark clouds still lingering over nuclear power, especially its unresolved waste problem, these renewable alternatives deserve ...

Turns out that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s process ... U.S. Department of Energy And, of course, the waste canisters inside the overpacks will not contain real spent fuel — but they ...

Sweden plans to store nuclear waste for 100,000 years, but the author questions whether this is feasible given the uncertainties of human civilization and technological progress over such a long ...

The Office for Nuclear Regulation said no-one was injured but there could have been serious consequences. The nuclear watchdog has issued an improvement notice after two railway wagons carrying ...

Sweden has commenced construction of a final storage facility for spent nuclear fuel, where highly radioactive waste will be stored for 100,000 years. Currently, there are thousands of metric tons ...

Image source, Kevin Church, BBC Image caption, A scientist demonstrates how nuclear waste can be 'baked' into solid materials like ceramic Nuclear waste expert Prof Claire Corkhill from the ...

The Hanford nuclear site contractor operating ... where work is done with radioactive waste samples by operators outside the cells operating equipment inside the cells. Identifying physical ...

Provided by the Department of Energy Adrian Hedden Carlsbad Current-Argus achedden@currentargus.com Nuclear waste shipments to a federal repository near Carlsbad were paused at the beginning of the ...