So the answer is not straightforward, but perhaps the best place to start is with the most familiar and serious form of nuclear waste – high-level waste produced by civilian nuclear reactors.

Nuclear waste is spread across 94 different nuclear sites in the U.S. and has no permanent home. Big Tech is going to add more to the pile.

The Japanese government and nuclear power plant operators have long grappled with how to dispose of spent fuel and other high-level radioactive waste. Authorities finally settled on the approach ...

Sweden recently began constructing a final storage facility for its spent nuclear fuel. The facility will safely store highly radioactive waste for an extended period, specifically 100,000 years. The ...

For a country such as Canada, which has no military-related nuclear waste, this fuel waste is undoubtedly the most toxic ...

The aftermath of Sellafield's 1957 reactor fire and the UK's ongoing efforts to entomb its toxic legacy deep beneath the ...

The State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine has given approval for the commissioning of the Solid Waste Retrieval ...

The government could propose separate regulations for high-level radioactive nuclear waste to continue the use of nuclear energy, a source familiar with the matter said. The reported proposals came as ...

hen Opposition Leader Peter Dutton proposed nuclear energy reactors on almost every mainland state last year, he reignited ...

Taiwan, near-fully dependent on imported energy, plans to shut its last reactor. Yet renewables like nuclear can support its ...

The hype surrounding nuclear energy in the aftermath of the COP29 would only translate into growth of the nuclear industry if the theoretical solution to highly-radioactive nuclear waste — deep ...

As nuclear waste piles up around the country, many communities are saying ‘no’ to taking it. In a rural corner of Colorado, ...