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

A Southern California Edison employee measures radiation at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station on March 10, 2020. Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images Around ...

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 ...

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 ...

The first container has been filled with long-lived low- and intermediate-level waste from the used fuel pools of unit 3 at Belgium's Doel nuclear power plant, which was shut down in September 2022 ...

Tomsk Polytechnic University has been commissioned by Rosatom's fuel division TVEL to create an innovative X-ray machine designed for non-destructive testing of containers with radioactive waste.

Four radioactive waste containers stored at Los Alamos National Laboratory have been successfully vented so they can be moved. The containers hold tritium waste, materials contaminated by a ...

RISING TIDE OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE. RADIOACTIVE GAS WILL BE VENTED FROM STORAGE CONTAINERS AT LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LAB SATURDAY, AND SOME IN THE AREA ARE NOT HAPPY ABOUT IT. JASON MCNABB IS LIVE IN LOS ...

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 ...

The decades-long struggle to find a permanent place to dispose of nuclear waste will continue, probably for many years to come. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...