A recently passed resolution by San Diego County seeks partnerships with national labs and companies to reprocess the waste ...

Reaching nearly 1,840 feet below the surface, the laboratory’s extreme depth introduced serious safety challenges during ...

Team finishes construction of steep spiral ramp leading to underground facility where nuclear waste will be secured for ...

China has completed the construction of a spiral access tunnel at the Beishan Underground Research Laboratory, one of the ...

Nuclear power’s dirtiest secret is not how the fuel is made, but where it ends up sitting for decades: in crowded pools of ...

Scientists at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant began using aerial drones to scope out areas of the underground nuclear waste repository to ensure they are safe before sending workers in. The drone ...

A Utah company is leading a charge to take and store radioactive waste from Canada. Opponents say it’s a bad idea, and that ...

An elevator used to move mined salt out of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant drew concerns from federal oversight officials as gradually collapsing salt put excess stress on the hoist. The salt “creep” ...

More space is coming to dispose of nuclear waste at a Carlsbad-area facility where the materials from around the country are buried thousands of feet underground. The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant was ...

The UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority announced it has succeeded in safely processing a can of plutonium residue into a ...

A coalition of 88 environmental groups opposes EnergySolutions' plans to dispose of radioactive waste at a Utah site, focus ...

I agree wholeheartedly with Rep. Tom Mehaffie’s May 3 commentary (“Bring nuclear jobs back to Pennsylvania”). There can be no doubt that increased nuclear power will create jobs and all the benefits ...