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

These canisters are still radioactive and thermally hot, so they are stored outdoors in concrete vaults that sit on concrete ...

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

Finland is on track to become the first country in the world to open a permanent deep geological repository for spent nuclear ...

These canisters are 10 feet tall and 2 feet in diameter, weighing approximately 5,000 pounds when filled. At both of those locations, some of the radioactive waste has already leaked into the soil ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is considering arguments about temporary storage sites for the country's 90,000 tons of nuclear waste.

Lower Trestles is hosting surfing in the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics; just down the beach is 3.6 million pounds of radioactive ...

These canisters are still radioactive and thermally hot, so they are stored outdoors in concrete vaults that sit on concrete pads, also on the power plant’s property. These vaults have vents to ...