The world-first facility for permanently disposing spent nuclear fuel is set to begin operations in Finland after decades of ...

After decades of planning, arguing and engineering, workers at the Hanford nuclear reservation in southeast Washington this ...

The first 7.5-ton container of radioactive waste turned into a stable glass form was carefully set on the bottom of a vast ...

Finland is weeks from licensing the world's first permanent nuclear waste repository. Here's what it means for the global ...

The United States has roughly 90,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel sitting in temporary storage at reactor sites across ...

Vacant apartments in Missouri are the latest site where radioactive contamination was found. It's tied to improper disposal ...

Japan is proposing a remote Pacific island as a possible host for a nuclear waste-disposal site, an important step in the ...

The central government is searching for a permanent disposal site for radioactive waste from Japan's nuclear power plants.

The mayor of a Tokyo village expressed a willingness to allow the government to conduct a survey on the suitability of ...

“For us, it’s the next step in really demonstrating that we’re a great place for the nuclear industry to expand,” said one official.

Gov. Mikie Sherrill signed a nuclear regulatory bill on Wednesday that she says will effectively lift a 40-year moratorium on ...

With the push of a button, the elevator descends hundreds of meters in seconds into the dark depths of Onkalo. “We are now at ...