The decades-long struggle to find a permanent place to dispose of nuclear waste in the U.S. will continue, probably for many ...

After three years of testing the Atlas Railcar nuclear waste wagon will be unveiled on 5 June, according to the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) Office of Nuclear Energy. The new 12-axle railcar is ...

The long-standing U.S. scientific board had been created to bring more expertise to the challenge of radioactive waste.

It happened on the Sellafield site, in Cumbria, which manages more radioactive waste in ... a stationary wagon. They added the wagons were left with minor damage and the nuclear containers were ...

Texas will determine ... More how nuclear waste is treated as nuclear energy demand spikes. Credit: Fred Schilling, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States Created during an era of ...

A Castor container is positioned at Woerth railroad station. The nuclear waste inside consists of reprocessed fuel elements from German nuclear power plants, processed in England. According to the ...

Sellafield, in Cumbria, is the "temporary home to the vast majority of the UK's radioactive nuclear waste", said the BBC, "as well as the world's largest stockpile of plutonium". It's stuck there ...

BISMARCK — The legislative push to build nuclear power plants in North Dakota could run up against perennial problems — the U.S. lacks a long-term solution for storing waste, and proposals to ...