The views of young people are being sought as part of proposals to build a new underground nuclear waste site. The Mid ...

Wash., used her powerful position in Congress to help Tri-Cities science, environmental and historical projects.

DOE was required by the legally binding Tri-Party Agreement to decide by Dec. 31 where to grout some of its low-activity ...

The years-long process for regulators to decide whether a proposed nuclear waste storage site gets the green light has begun.

Nuclear power plants are used primarily to generate electricity, and while they're often thought of as a cleaner energy source, there is a drawback. These power plants produce waste. This waste is ...

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The curated articles focus on significant steps in handling nuclear waste at the Hanford site, highlighting plant operations, regulatory approvals, and technological advancements. Key events tie them ...

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Wednesday approved a slate of bipartisan bills spanning issues from nuclear waste recycling to plastics cleanup and diesel emissions. Most of the ...

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 ...

How spent but still radioactive nuclear fuel rods are to be transported to a potential underground storage site near Ignace should come under scrutiny during an upcoming federal assessment of ...

The U.S. government launched a new operation extracting rare materials from Cold War era nuclear waste that is likely to ...

China’s CNNC has completed a key construction stage at the Beishan underground radwaste research laboratory in Gansu.