Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Police vehicles are parked at Philippsburg station as a train with containers carrying highly radioactive nuclear waste arrives in ...

SPOKANE, Wash. – The Washington Department of Ecology confirmed in a recent letter that 2,000 gallons of low-activity nuclear waste will pass through Spokane next year. This announcement has sparked ...

Welcome to the “Let’s Blow Up A Transportation Overpack for Nuclear Waste” show! This show is in development by the U.S. Department of Energy, has a budget of about $10 million, and aims to ease the ...

Congress and the president have finally jumped through all the prescribed hoops to officially approve Yucca Mountain, Nev., as the country’s first permanent high-level nuclear waste repository. The ...

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek and the state’s U.S. senators, Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, object to a federal proposal to transport more than 30 million gallons of liquid radioactive waste from the Hanford ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. View of Yucca Mountain showing coring activities in 2006. (Photo courtesy of the U.S. Department of Energy) A victory by Donald ...

MIDLAND, Texas — There have been recent legal developments for high-level nuclear waste storage in the Permian Basin as one lawsuit is now headed to the Supreme Court. On Wednesday, folks with Fasken ...

Most nuclear energy is thermal. All that complex nuclear physics and chemistry serve merely to create steam that spins a turbine, the same as any combustion-based power plant does. But what if you ...

Hundreds of people have been giving their views on a project that could see Canada’s nuclear waste buried deep underground in northwestern Ontario — and one of the main concerns is how these materials ...