Twenty Years Into Fracking, Pennsylvania Has Yet to Reckon With Its Radioactive Waste

Former government officials say the state isn’t doing enough to regulate fracking waste, even as new research shows it’s far ...
Cowboy State Daily

Utah Company Wants Nuclear Waste From Canada; Could It Come Through Wyoming?

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

Florida bill allowing radioactive roads made of potentially cancer-causing mining waste signed by DeSantis

Florida governor and presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis signed a bill Thursday that would allow for roads across Florida to be made with "radioactive" mining waste that has been linked to cancer. The ...
The Salt Lake Tribune

For 1st time ever, Utah would take radioactive waste from another country under EnergySolutions proposal

Note to readers • This story is made possible through a partnership between The Salt Lake Tribune and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. A Utah company wants to import massive ...
iaea.org

IAEA Mission Says Greece Committed to Managing Radioactive Waste Safely, Sees Areas for Improvement

An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) mission said that Greece has established a good basis to ensure and enhance the safety of radioactive waste management. The review identified areas for ...
MLive

Judge blocks new radioactive waste imports to Michigan landfill

DETROIT, MI — A state judge has blocked a controversial Republic Services landfill in Wayne County from receiving new shipments of radioactive waste. Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Kevin Cox signed ...
KOAT Albuquerque

Los Alamos residents protest nuclear waste storage, including venting of radioactive gasses

RISING TIDE OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE. RADIOACTIVE GAS WILL BE VENTED FROM STORAGE CONTAINERS AT LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LAB SATURDAY, AND SOME IN THE AREA ARE NOT HAPPY ABOUT IT. JASON MCNABB IS LIVE IN LOS ...
The Spokesman-Review

23 years later, Hanford site set to treat WWII, Cold War radioactive waste

RICHLAND – More than two decades after construction of the Hanford nuclear site’s massive vitrification plant began, the plant has taken one of the final steps to begin treating waste for disposal as ...
Los Angeles Times

It’s not just toxic chemicals. Radioactive waste was also dumped off Los Angeles coast

For decades, a graveyard of corroding barrels has littered the seafloor just off the coast of Los Angeles. It was out of sight, out of mind — a not-so-secret secret that haunted the marine environment ...
The Conversation

The Kimba nuclear waste plan bites the dust. Here’s what went wrong and how to do better next time

Ian Lowe was for 12 years a member of the Radiation Health and Safety Advisory Council, which advises the regulator of nuclear issues. He was also a member of the Expert Advisory Committee for the ...
iaea.org

IAEA Mission Commends Sweden’s Management of Nuclear Power Plant Radioactive Waste and Spent Fuel, Encourages Improvements for Governance of Some Other Radioactive Waste

An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) mission said that Sweden has a comprehensive, robust and well-functioning system for safely managing radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel from nuclear ...