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) ...

Frozen since 2013, the spent nuclear fuel management levy will increase 92.5% for pressurized water reactors and 9.2% for ...

The heat produced by the radioactive waste strikes you when you enter the storage site of Ontario Power Generation at the ...

The first capsules of high-level radioactive waste have been removed from a water-filled pool at the Hanford nuclear site to prepare them for safer dry storage in steel-lined, reinforced-concrete ...

One of the highest-risk components of nuclear waste is iodine-129 (I-129), which stays radioactive for millions of years and accumulates in human thyroids when ingested. In the U.S., nuclear waste ...

Nuclear waste has become a kind of cultural shorthand for everything people fear about atomic power, from glowing green sludge to warnings that we are burdening distant descendants with our mistakes.

ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, Ill. — The Joint Munitions Command serves as the provider for low-level radioactive waste and low-level mixed waste disposition for the Department of Defense and other federal ...

The Missouri Department of Natural Resources asked that the EPA assume oversight of the Bridgeton Landfill, arguing it may contain nuclear waste like the adjacent West Lake Landfill. Missouri ...

Welcome to the “Let’s Blow Up A Transportation Overpack for Nuclear Waste” show! This show is in development by the U.S. Department of Energy, has a budget of about $10 million, and aims to ease the ...

The proposed Yucca Mountain, Nev., nuclear repository would safely contain radioactive waste and used fuel long into the future, according to a long-awaited Nuclear Regulatory Commission safety report ...