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 ...

Hanford plant begins final testing phase using chemical simulants for waste. Low Activity Waste Facility aims to start treating radioactive waste by July. DOE contractor H2C set to assume operations ...

The £136bn clean-up operation of the Sellafield nuclear site, including the building judged the UK’s most hazardous, is not making progress fast enough, MPs have warned. Work decommissioning the ...

The Tokyo Electric Power Company, Tepco, has said that two specially designed and newly installed robots will need three years to remove 3,000 sandbags from the basements of the three destroyed ...

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 ...

From decommissioning to enabling new-build, we are bringing together the UK’s expertise in radioactive waste management – ...

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

First glassified Hanford tank waste canisters moved to lined landfill. Integrated Disposal Facility be permanent disposal site for vitrified waste. Landfill can only accept low level radioactive waste ...

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

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A truck delivers a container to the low-level waste vaults at the Dounreay nuclear site in Dounreay, Scotland, Britain November 25 ...