CARLSBAD, N.M. (KRQE) – Another seven-room section carved out of the underground salt deposits near Carlsbad, New Mexico is now full of transuranic waste. Soon, the salt will encase the waste, and ...

Four radioactive waste containers stored at Los Alamos National Laboratory have been successfully vented so they can be moved. The containers hold tritium waste, materials contaminated by a ...

The vitrification plant at the Hanford site has hit a new milestone — pouring glass for the first time since construction began 21 years ago. “This marks another important step in commissioning the ...

A new study on the effects of waste dumping in the ocean between Los Angeles and Catalina Island found that barrels dumped decades ago could contain radioactive material. The area looked into by the ...

The Department of Energy Tuesday announced incentive payments of $89 million to five contractors working at the Hanford ...

The curated articles focus on the progress and challenges in treating Hanford’s radioactive tank waste by turning it into glass, a process called vitrification. They discuss key moments such as the ...

Tomsk Polytechnic University has been commissioned by Rosatom's fuel division TVEL to create an innovative X-ray machine designed for non-destructive testing of containers with radioactive waste.

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek and the state’s U.S. senators, Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, object to a federal proposal to potentially move by truck or train more than 30 million gallons of liquid radioactive ...

The decades-long struggle to find a permanent place to dispose of nuclear waste will continue, probably for many years to come. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...