Around the U.S., about 90,000 tons of nuclear waste is stored at over 100 sites in 39 states, in a range of different structures and containers. For decades, the nation has been trying to send it all ...
A Southern California Edison employee measures radiation at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station on March 10, 2020. (Photo: Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images) ...
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management, responsible for cleaning up radioactive waste from five decades of nuclear weapons production and testing, requested the National ...
Baker County commissioners have joined state and federal officials in opposing the potential transportation of liquid ...
RICHLAND — More than two decades after construction of the Hanford nuclear site’s massive vitrification plant began, the plant has taken one of the final steps to begin treating waste for disposal as ...