Finland successfully completed the first test of its encapsulation plant, which, if finished, will become the world’s first ...

The vast majority of nuclear waste in the U.S. is spent nuclear fuel from commercial nuclear power plants. Before it is used, ...

EDF owns seven advanced gas-cooled reactors (AGRs) plants in the UK, which were built between the 1960s and 1980s and differ ...

Italian nuclear authorities have begun demolishing and reconstructing a low-level radioactive waste storage facility ...

House Bill 14 would set up a new state office to administer grants of up to $200 million to private companies to build ...

Najmedin Meshkati is professor of civil and environmental engineering, industrial systems engineering and international ...

Nuclear power plants (NPPs) are designed to ensure minimal waste arising during operation, and waste management processes further ensure that radioactive waste is managed safely and cost effectively.

Work has started to demolish and subsequently reconstruct an interim storage facility for low-level radioactive waste at the ...

How to secure radioactive waste repositories? When the disposal of radioactive barrels into the sea was prohibited, inactive ...

We’ve never quite figured out how to safely store all of that spent nuclear fuel. And it’s a problem that’s about to get ...

The defueling of the second of two reactors at Hunterston B means the plant has become the first of the UK's seven advanced ...

The Texas House approved a bill on Tuesday that would create a grant program to jump-start the state's nuclear industry.