The federal government will begin the long-awaited cleanup of a nuclear waste dump outside Apollo in Armstrong County.

In Finland, experts hope they have found a viable solution: burying the waste in bedrock over 1,000 feet underground. More ...

After decades of planning, arguing and engineering, workers at the Hanford nuclear reservation in southeast Washington this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Southern California Edison employee measures radiation at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station on March 10, 2020. (Photo: ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...