Nuclear waste is largely misunderstood, thanks to the Cold War and war movies. However, even if nuclear energy is safer than ...

Such repositories raise complex ethical questions around public safety, particularly given the millennia-long timescales of ...

More than 20 containers of radioactive zinc stranded in Manila Bay for months have been brought ashore to a “safe place,” the ...

A decades-old Soviet secret has resurfaced beneath Arctic waters after a Russian scientific expedition located a long-missing ...

Baker County commissioners have joined state and federal officials in opposing the potential transportation of liquid ...

Oregon leaders object to a federal proposal to potentially move by truck or train more than 30 million gallons of liquid radioactive waste from the Hanford site.

Nuclear Waste Program's efforts to oversee cleanup of one of the world's most complex nuclear sites. Join us as we look back ...

How spent but still radioactive nuclear fuel rods are to be transported to a potential underground storage site near Ignace should come under scrutiny during an upcoming federal assessment of ...

The presence of 3.55 million pounds of nuclear waste stored “temporarily” at the San Onofre nuclear power plant — which was permanently shut down in 2013 after severe problems with key plant equipment ...

On Nov. 23, 1976, the Spokane Police Department received a note, handwritten by some person or group calling themselves ...

As Arctic ice thins and shipping lanes open, Russia has stumbled on a chilling legacy of the Cold War: a long-lost Soviet ...

Gwinnett County plans to hold a household hazardous waste collection day in February and they’re asking for help to make it ...