Dmitry Logvin identified three areas the company has settled on. The first is a site near the town of Ostrovets, which is located close to the nuclear power plant – the main repository of radioactive ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 the Pacific Ocean when the United States military released an 18-kiloton ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...