Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Radioactive waste held in underground tanks has begun to be transferred for the first time to the massive Hanford nuclear site ...

The Department of Energy on Wednesday signed the paperwork needed to allow radioactive waste to be pumped into the Hanford nuclear site’s vitrification plant 23 years after construction began, said ...

The Runit Dome, aka "The Tomb", soon after it was built in 1980. (Public Domain) A gaping hole was left on a small island in ...

Seventy tonnes of radioactive waste have been removed from a nuclear site's most hazardous building. Teams at Sellafield in Cumbria have removed the waste from the Magnox Swarf Storage Silos with the ...

SEATTLE (AP) — For much of the 20th century, a sprawling complex in the desert of southeastern Washington state turned out most of the plutonium used in the nation’s nuclear arsenal, from the first ...

Countries are racing to build new reactors. But we've barely figured out how to clean up the old ones — and the bill is ...

OSTROVETS DISTRICT, 14 August (BelTA) – Progress in preparations for building a radioactive waste burial facility in Belarus was reviewed by Head of the Nuclear and Radiation Safety Department of the ...

An International Atomic Energy Agency team of experts has praised progress made by Poland in safely managing its radioactive ...

This site handled (or was contaminated by) uranium, according to government records. The Department of Energy initially considered cleaning up this site under the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial ...

In January, the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada (IAAC) initiated an assessment of a proposed nuclear waste repository in northwestern Ontario. The repository is being advanced by the Nuclear Waste ...

In historic step, radioactive waste moved to massive Hanford treatment plant. DOE aims to produce certified glass canisters by Oct 15, 2025, under court order. Plant will glassify low-activity waste ...