Geological disposal, optimized materials and greater use of digital tools to enhance communication with stakeholders are among the innovations the nuclear industry is developing to address outstanding ...

Ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all (SDG7) is critical for achieving sustainable development goals. Nuclear power plays a pivotal role in ensuring a ...

EnergySolutions' plans to dispose of low-level radioactive waste from Canada in Tooele County have gotten an initial OK, though the approval process isn't over.

Radioactive waste is generated not only by the nuclear industry but by industries using radioactive materials or resulting from technological processes that involve naturally occurring radioactive ...

NOTE: You must first enter all radioactivity into their proper waste containers in the Radioactive Source Use and Waste workflow instructions in the Handbook. When no more waste will be added to a ...

Hanford site workers have reached a key environmental cleanup milestone, emptying radioactive waste from a second tank farm. “This is an important moment in our Hanford cleanup effort,” said Brian ...

A third aging underground tank at the Hanford nuclear site is suspected of leaking highly radioactive and hazardous chemical waste into the ground, the Department of Energy said Thursday. “This is ...

Twenty-three years and 70 days after workers began pouring concrete to build the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant, the plant has turned radioactive and hazardous chemical waste into a stable glass form ...