A half century after initial disposal payments were made, America’s commercial nuclear waste remains exactly where it started ...

More than 85,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel has piled up at more than 100 locations in the U.S. There is no viable ...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced on his social media site that the “process will begin immediately” to resume ...

As we continue to agonize over the fate of highly radioactive nuclear waste — and local cities throw their weight behind an effort to move San Onofre’s to higher ground on Camp Pendleton — we’d like ...

More than 1,700 images taken by robotic cameras show scratches but no serious issues, Southern California Edison says .

A recent article in the Tri-City Herald effectively explains a significant development in Central Washington: "Twenty-three ...

Indeed, construction of the plant at the Hanford Site has been arduous. With 56 million gallons of radioactive waste harbored at the location, efforts to mitigate the danger have been fraught with ...

A roadmap calls for legislation and financial incentives in California for the nascent fusion industry. But is it worth the ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Private nuclear power company Holtec said this week it is walking away from a project to store nuclear waste in New Mexico, despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June ...

DOE starts vitrification at Hanford, converting tank waste into durable glass. Plant produced glass that meets disposal standards for lined landfill burial. Vitrification frees double-shell tank space ...

Twenty-three years and 70 days after workers began pouring concrete to build the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant, the plant has turned radioactive and hazardous chemical waste into a stable glass form ...