The first 7.5-ton container of radioactive waste turned into a stable glass form was carefully set on the bottom of a vast new landfill at Hanford in Eastern Washington Wednesday, its permanent ...

First vitrified Hanford radioactve waste disposed of at site. 30 containers of glassified waste staged as disposal started. DOE says its an important step in Hanford nuclear site cleanup. Richland, ...

In February, 5 On Your Side first covered the demolition of six homes in Cades Cove, and now, the radioactive waste underneath is getting cleared out. Remediation officially began mid-March and is ...

The state of Tennessee has submitted a proposal to the U.S. Department of Energy arguing Oak Ridge is the premier site for a nuclear campus that would likely include radioactive waste disposal. The ...

Tennessee’s leaders are weighing a plan that could mean more nuclear waste is stored in the Volunteer State. State lawmakers might ask Gov. Bill Lee to answer a federal request for information about ...

The concrete cap of a tomb encasing radioactive fallout now has cracks, and what’s beneath can rise from the dead. The U.S. military, in 1958, conducted a nuclear test on Runit Island in the Marshall ...

Nuclear energy isn't as clean as we like to believe. The associated power plants produce small amounts of nuclear waste that require proper disposal. The main enemy here is time. All radioactive ...

A Hanford site employee collapsed and died midday Thursday at the Hanford nuclear site by Richland in Eastern Washington. Limited information was available Thursday afternoon, but the death of worker ...

North Dakota lawmakers are studying radioactive waste storage options, though nuclear energy is at least a decade away. Current state law prohibits high-level radioactive waste storage, which would ...

BISMARCK — Nuclear energy is at least a decade away from coming to North Dakota, but the lawmakers studying its feasibility are already researching potential storage options for radioactive waste.

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and The Salt Lake Tribune, a nonprofit newsroom in Utah. The Republicans who dominate Utah’s politics — from the legislature to the ...

MINSK, 22 March (BelTA) – A public discussion about the choice of the site for building a radioactive waste burial facility will begin in August. Dmitry Logvin, Director of RUP Belarusian Radioactive ...