Deep Isolation, a leading innovator in nuclear waste disposal technology, in a news release said the group applauds the suite ...

The waste is left from chemically processing uranium fuel irradiated in Hanford reactors to produce nearly two-thirds of the ...

China has ample storage facilities for both low-level and high-level radioactive waste from nuclear power generation and is pushing ahead with research into deep geological disposal for the latter ...

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.

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 ...

Storing used nuclear fuel (and uranium tailings) is a waste because it can still generate energy and is thus more valuable ...

The NRC categorizes these rods as “high-level” nuclear waste due to their specialized handling and storage requirements. The U.S. initially planned to recycle its used nuclear fuel through ...

South Korea's National Assembly has passed an act that stipulates the construction of interim storage facilities for high-level radioactive waste by 2050 and permanent disposal facilities by 2060. The ...

The project for selecting candidate sites for high-level radioactive waste began in the 1980s with geological surveys focused on four stations across France. However, due to social backlash and ...

It's not just low-level radioactive waste causing the federal government headaches. Professor Lowe said the government also needed to find a solution for high-level waste from nuclear reactors ...

France’s National Agency for the management of radioactive waste (Andra – l’Agence nationale pour la gestion des déchets ...