Oak Ridge teams are processing decades-old radioactive waste months ahead of schedule to reduce environmental risk.

A team of researchers at CERN and the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has proposed a groundbreaking solution that could transform how we manage nuclear waste. This new tech addresses one ...

Many communities across the United States are overburdened with poisonous substances placed in the environment by fossil fuel, agrochemical, and technology industries. Southeast Michigan, the most ...

The Department of Energy says it can reduce risk to the environment by speeding up the treatment of 56 million gallons of ...

Radioactive waste arises fromdiverse sources, including the operation of nuclear power plants, nuclear fuelcycle facilities, and the application of radionuclides in research, healthcare,accelerators, ...

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 safety ...

Deep Isolation Nuclear, an innovator in nuclear waste disposal technology, on January 13 said the company has successfully completed its Project SAVANT (Sequential Advancement of Technology for Deep ...

The first 7.5-ton container of radioactive waste turned into a stable glass form was carefully set on the bottom of a vast new landfill at Hanford in Eastern Washington Wednesday, its permanent ...

Nuclear waste remains a major environmental hazard due to its long-lasting radioactivity, which can persist for thousands of years. However, new research by University of Sharjah scientists, published ...

Finland is preparing to clear one of the final regulatory hurdles for what is ...

Sweden has commenced construction of a final storage facility for spent nuclear fuel, where highly radioactive waste will be stored for 100,000 years. Currently, there are thousands of metric tons of ...