Some of the most toxic nuclear waste in the world is stored in dozens of huge tanks first installed in the 1950s at the Savannah River Site atomic weapons complex near Aiken. Radioactive wasp nests ...

The UK is expected to accrue enough waste to fill four Wembley Stadiums Jonathan Leake is the Telegraph's Energy Editor. He has previously worked for other publications covering science, environment ...

Children who lived near a St. Louis creek polluted with radioactive atomic bomb waste from the 1940s through the 1960s were more likely to be diagnosed with cancer over their lifetimes than children ...

How do you feel about radioactive waste in your backyard? Well, last year, by cloak of darkness, Wayne Disposal, Inc. (WDI), a hazardous waste landfill located in Belleville, had planned to accept ...

The development and use of nuclear technology, which began in the early 1940s, has produced a substantial inventory of radioactive waste— material with no current or currently known future use. The ...

Researchers are exploring the use of radioactive waste to create ultra-long-life micro-nuclear batteries for specialized devices. These batteries, unlike consumer electronics power sources, harness ...

Will nuclear waste travel all the way from Ontario, Canada to a site about an hour drive from Salt Lake City? An interstate panel may consider a resolution later this month on whether to allow ...

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 ...

Congress asked the National Academies to evaluate the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) plans for retrieval and on-site disposal of certain types of radioactive wastes stored in almost 250 underground ...