Nuclear waste

A critical milestone is on the horizon for Canada's 175-year-long plan to bury its nuclear waste underground, with two pairs of Ontario communities set to decide if they would be ...

Chinese students in Australia are pushing to mobilise against recent moves by the Japanese authorities to discharge nuclear ...

SEOUL, South Korea—Anxious about Japan’s impending release of treated nuclear wastewater from the tsunami-damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant, hundreds of ...

The successful overturning of a planned nuclear waste disposal site by an Indigenous group remains standing after the ...

Liberal MP Rowan Ramsey is calling on the federal government to appeal a court decision to reject a ...

Rafael Grossi, director-general of the UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has downplayed the chances of nuclear reprocessing ...

Commentary It looks like nuclear energy may be back on the table in Australia, again. A nuclear technology ...

SAN CLEMENTE, Calif.—San Clemente officially disapproved on April 5 of the storage of nuclear waste—several million pounds—at the ...

SAN CLEMENTE, Calif.—San Clemente city officials are pressuring the U.S. Department of Energy to remove over 3.6 million ...

Two tonnes of Australian radioactive waste, which was sent to the United Kingdom (UK) for recycling in 1996, ...

SPOKANE, Wash.—An underground nuclear waste storage tank in Washington state that dates to World War II appears to ...

A newly formed “coalition of stakeholders” is calling on the federal government to get serious about removing millions ...

TORONTO—The federal government has launched a new initiative aimed at finding long-term solutions for the growing quantity of ...

Radioactive waste from the Cold War era stored under a concrete dome in the Marshall Islands might be ...

TORONTO—The much-delayed and politically fraught decision on a proposed multibillion-dollar nuclear-waste storage bunker near Lake Huron now appears ...

Congress is pushing to move the process for transporting tons of high-level radioactive waste across 43 states.

With a federal promise to take highly radioactive spent fuel from nuclear plants still unfulfilled, closed reactors are ...

New Mexico on Saturday levied more than $54 million in penalties against the U.S. Department of Energy for ...

In terms of waste disposal, the nuclear waste situation in the United States is among the most serious ...

Swedes were once vehemently opposed to nuclear power, but the tide has changed, as is evident in public ...

Like many power plants in the nation, Indian Point Energy Center in Buchanan, N.Y., is aging. And along ...