The Chornobyl nuclear power plant is slowly but surely moving towards a safer future. The State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine has officially given the Chornobyl plant the green light to ...

Nuclear power plants are used primarily to generate electricity, and while they're often thought of as a cleaner energy source, there is a drawback. These power plants produce waste. This waste is ...

The heat produced by the radioactive waste strikes you when you enter the storage site of Ontario Power Generation at the ...

Around the U.S., about 90,000 tons of nuclear waste is stored at over 100 sites in 39 states, in a range of different structures and containers. For decades, the nation has been trying to send it all ...

Sweden's radioactive nuclear waste will be stored in a sealed bedrock repository for 100,000 years. It will be hazardous for a very long time. So how can we ensure that humanity does not forget that ...

Norway should build a deep geological landfill for high-level waste and a medium-depth geological repository for low- and intermediate-level waste, a group of experts considering solutions for the ...

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 ...

HARTFORD, Conn. (WFSB) - Connecticut is joining 40 other states on handling radioactive waste. This includes radioactive materials used in healthcare facilities and research, such as dyes used in ...

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 ...