This is one of several misconceptions about nuclear energy: America’s nuclear waste is not buried in a mountain or tucked at the bottom of a deep, rocky cavern. It is sealed away in coffin-like ...

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

Police vehicles are parked at Philippsburg station as a train with containers carrying highly radioactive nuclear waste arrives in Philippsburg. For the first time in four years, a Castor ...

Construction of a radioactive waste mound near the Ottawa River was challenged in federal court last week. The contentious project would allow Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) to permanently ...

The preceding nuclear pollution article, "Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster: 2024 Aftermath, Risks, and Insights, " examined ...

Debbie Stabenow (D-Lansing) and U.S. Rep. John James (R-Shelby Twp.) last week led a letter to the authors of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 National Defense Authorization Act, asking them to include ...

The Canadian government's ongoing plan to permanently store 50,000 tons of highly radioactive nuclear waste in the Great Lakes basin near Ontario has sparked bipartisan opposition from lawmakers in ...

The question of how to dispose of nuclear waste is more important than ever, because the world is going through something of a nuclear renaissance. After years of fear about nuclear power plant ...

A nuclear waste management body has backed further disposal site survey work in two municipalities in Hokkaido. On Friday, the Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Japan submitted a report to ...

But the result of the South Bruce referendum on whether to offer itself as a “willing host” for a deep geological repository (DGR) for Canada’s high-level nuclear waste is binding on its ...

An elevator rattles down about a kilometer (3,000 feet) below ground in five minutes to reach Germany's nuclear necropolis, a future repository set to to entomb much of its radioactive waste. At the ...