A trio of Southern California lawmakers are making another effort to pass a federal law that would give priority to removing ...

explaining that nuclear waste would be stored in water-tight canisters. By 2026, Posiva plans to bury 3,250 copper canisters of waste, each measuring 17 feet long and containing about two tons of ...

A new nuclear waste shelter in Sweden, among the first in the world of its kind, follows political ambitions and a sudden ...

The nuclear program began here in the 1950s ... s the work of the NRC and the U.S. Department of Transportation. Waste canisters are inserted into those thick, heavy, shielded overpacks, which ...

Holtec plans to eventually store up to 10,000 canisters throughout 19 expansions phases, according to the NRC.” Figure 1. Proposed HI-STORE CISF facility for storing nuclear waste in New Mexico ...

Cañon City in southern Colorado is still dealing with the fallout of radioactive contamination from decades ago. A nuclear ...

This number jumps to 27,000 canisters when unprocessed nuclear waste is included, and experts advise that any permanent disposal facility will need to be able to store over 40,000 canisters.

Finland will soon start operating a deep geological waste repository for spent fuel rods from nuclear power plants ... of protection is provided by sealed canisters made of iron inside a cover ...

Spent nuclear waste from the facility – which was shuttered in 2012 following a reactor coolant leak – has already been moved into steel canisters and buried on the beach, a process which was stalled ...

Thousands of tons of nuclear waste is generated during the nuclear ... Specifically, concerns have been raised by the use of copper canisters for corrosion resistance. While the authorities ...

FORT SMITH -- Community leaders have no plans to accept a nuclear waste site in Fort Smith ... note a 300-acre site could host up to 10,000 canisters. The U.S. has 3,200 spent nuclear fuel ...