A panel called in federal experts to reassure the public about the safety of storing spent fuel after two bills that would ...

Welcome to the “Let’s Blow Up A Transportation Overpack for Nuclear Waste” show ... real spent fuel — but they’ll replicate actual loaded conditions in terms of weight and other variables.

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

In this edition of Behind the Scenes at the Nuclear Waste Program, we talk with Heather Hansen, our Resource Center Business ...

Washington — The Supreme Court on Wednesday jumped into the decades-long dispute over what to do with thousands of metric tons of nuclear waste, as it considered a plan to store it above one of ...

Five companies have been awarded a design and engineering contract to prepare plans for a depository for spent nuclear fuel ...

Debates surround the actual water needs of nuclear power ... but concerns about increased nuclear waste persist. A global nuclear energy renaissance is unfolding. Around the world, the public ...

Finnish waste management company Posiva announced it has begun a trial run of placing disposal cannisters in the Onkalo used nuclear fuel repository. No actual nuclear fuel is being used in the trial ...