The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) lists three types of nuclear waste: high-level, transuranic, and low-level waste, and each comes with different disposal requirements based on ...

The Korea Radioactive Waste Agency has signed agreements with Finland's Posiva Oy and Spain's Enresa to strengthen ...

Intermediate-level: waste produced during reprocessing and during regular nuclear reactor operation. High-level: intensely radioactive materials, mainly spent fuel rods from energy-generating ...

The 13th and final rail shipment carrying vitrified high-level nuclear waste (HLW) has reached the site of Germany’s ...

What is “high-level” nuclear waste? When a nuclear plant closes, there are three types of waste material. The safest category, including items such as old protective clothing, accounts for ...

The ongoing assessment of areas to host a final disposal facility for high-level radioactive waste from nuclear power plants raises many questions about whether it can really identify suitable ...

Nuclear power plants could take up to 15 years to establish in Australia and facilities to dispose of high-level nuclear waste twice as long, an inquiry has heard. Waste produced by the power ...

The fight to keep high-level nuclear waste out of the Permian Basin is officially headed to the United States Supreme Court. The State of Texas is taking on a couple of parties, including the ...