More than two decades after construction of the Hanford nuclear site’s massive vitrification plant began, the plant has taken ...

What happens after a nuclear power plant is shut down? In this eye-opening exploration, we journey into the heart of abandoned nuclear facilities around the world, where towering cooling towers and ...

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 hearing over the disposal of radioactive waste in Van Buren Township brought out concerned community members and elected ...

The decades-long struggle to find a permanent place to dispose of nuclear waste will continue, probably for many years to come.

"The world's not becoming a safer place," he ... because it forces people to think about what they would do after nuclear war," he said. "That's something that very, very few people want to ...

The completion of this dummy run puts Finland in the lead in the race to build the world’s first operational ... unhappy with the prospect of nuclear waste being stored nearby and perplexed ...

Concerns were raised by government watchdog groups for a plan to dispose of Cold War nuclear ... a legacy waste disposal plan must be developed and submitted to NMED a year after the permit ...

The plutonium refined at the site as part of World War ... stockpile of nuclear weapons created during the Cold War. For decades, more than 400 billion gallons of contaminated waste seeped into ...