Facilities that work with radioactive materials require practical solutions for storing, transporting, and managing small quantities of isotopes and radioactive waste. In nuclear medicine, ...

Holtec International rang up a big deal this month when it inked a seven-year, $150 million contract to build a nuclear-waste storage site in Ukraine. The Marlton-based firm specializes in designing ...

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

In accordance with the Federal Law on the Use of Atomic Energy, the management of nuclear materials and radioactive substances during transport is one of the many elements involved in the atomic ...

After years of pushback from advocacy groups, small amounts of radioactive gas can be released into the air as early as Saturday from waste containers stored at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The ...

Workers pull the first concrete cask filled with cesium capsules out of the Waste Encapsulation and Storage Facility at the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington. Washington state Department of ...

One of the most formidable obstacles to exploiting the full potential of nuclear energy is the long-term disposal of highly radioactive waste that is generated by the burning of fuel in nuclear ...