Nuclear waste is largely misunderstood, thanks to the Cold War and war movies. However, even if nuclear energy is safer than ...

A Finnish company has announced surprising plans to burn maintenance waste from a nuclear power plant for district heating and electrical generation, according to Interesting Engineering. Nuclear ...

A judge in Michigan has denied the disposal of waste from the Manhattan Project in their jurisdiction over concerns about the conflicting information on the exact nature of the material and its impact ...

Deep Isolation Nuclear, an innovator in nuclear waste disposal technology, on January 13 said the company has successfully ...

Deep Isolation announced the completion of Project SAVANT, an effort aimed at advancing deep borehole disposal for nuclear ...

Nuclear power plants are used primarily to generate electricity, and while they're often thought of as a cleaner energy source, there is a drawback. These power plants produce waste. This waste is ...

Deep Isolation has completed a DOE-funded project validating corrosion-resistant UCS canisters for deep borehole disposal of ...

The Department of Energy on Wednesday signed the paperwork needed to allow radioactive waste to be pumped into the Hanford nuclear site’s vitrification plant 23 years after construction began, said ...

In historic step, radioactive waste moved to massive Hanford treatment plant. DOE aims to produce certified glass canisters by Oct 15, 2025, under court order. Plant will glassify low-activity waste ...

Nuclear power is squarely in the spotlight once again. As my colleague Erik Funkhouser pointed out in his recent article, enthusiasm for nuclear has come and gone before. But today’s “nuclear ...

Federal and state permits issued. Hanford waste treatment days away. DOE faces Oct. 15 court decree deadline to start treating radioactive waste. Hanford vitrification plant to turn decades-old waste ...