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 ...

U.S. scientists are developing an innovation that could reduce nuclear waste storage time by 99.7%, transmuting long-lived radioactive materials into shorter-lived isotopes.

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 ...

New Mexico has fined the US DOE $16m for failing to prioritise the removal of legacy waste from LANL for disposal at WIPP.

Researchers sent a nuclear waste container on a 14,500-mile odyssey by truck, barge, cargo ship, and train in an effort to understand how well radioactive fuel would stand up to travel. That's ...

The Hanford Tank Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant was built to turn that nuclear waste into glass; it started operating in October 2025. The history of the Hanford Site and the way the stored ...

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 ...

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A massive amount of highly radioactive nuclear waste has reached the northern German port of Nordenham, Lower Saxony. The waste that came via a specialist nuclear transport vessel triggered uproar in ...

FORT SMITH -- Community leaders have no plans to accept a nuclear waste site in Fort Smith, the city said in a statement Wednesday. The announcement came two days after an informational community ...