The waste is left from chemically processing uranium fuel irradiated in Hanford reactors to produce nearly two-thirds of the ...

After World War II, nuclear power was heralded as the future of energy. Then the partial meltdown at Three Mile Island in ...

In this edition of Behind the Scenes at the Nuclear Waste Program, we talk with Heather Hansen, our Resource Center Business ...

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 ...

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

Radioactive waste can remain hazardous for millions of years. The lack of a clear disposal strategy is pushing some to search for solutions.

80-year-old historic nuclear waste At issue is the dumping of waste leftover from the 1942 Manhattan Project, which was the ...

Pavel Podvig, a senior researcher at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), is widely considered to be the world's ... said that after all-out nuclear war, "the living ...

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