The downside of nuclear power is, of course, nuclear waste. But there are a lot of myths around nuclear waste, and uses for ...

A transport of four containers carrying highly radioactive nuclear waste from abroad travelled through Germany for the first ...

That is comforting because Sellafield, in Cumbria, is the temporary home to the vast majority of the UK’s radioactive nuclear waste, as well as the world’s largest stockpile of plutonium.

A nuclear power plant that has been decommissioned for 30 years will soon help power a new facility with recovered nuclear waste. The Department of Energy approved Oklo's conceptual safety design ...

Dübendorf, 12.11.2024 - A nuclear waste storage facility needs to be secure, even if glaciers were to churn down from the Alps into the midlands in a distant future. This is why Nagra arranged for a ...

Sellafield, in Cumbria, is the "temporary home to the vast majority of the UK's radioactive nuclear waste", said the BBC, "as well as the world's largest stockpile of plutonium". It's stuck there ...

A crumbling nuclear waste site in Cumbria is leaking thousands of litres of radioactive water into the ground every day, a report by Whitehall’s spending watchdog has warned. The so-called ...

An elevator rattles down about 1km below ground in five minutes to reach Germany’s nuclear necropolis, a future repository set to entomb much of its radioactive waste. At the bottom, a jeep ride takes ...