A growing number of countries are planning a permanent solution to the issue of radioactive waste by burying it deep ...

The Waste Control Specialists site in Andrews County in West Texas, where radioactive and hazardous waste is stored, in 2021. (Eli Hartman For The Texas Tribune, Eli Hartman For The Texas Tribune) ...

Sweden is constructing a $1 billion nuclear waste repository located over 500 meters deep in solid bedrock, designed to securely store the nation's nuclear waste for the next 100,000 years. This ...

Excavation of the spiral ramp of the Beishan Underground Research Laboratory near Jiuquan City in China's Gansu province has been fully completed, China National Nuclear Corporation announced.  ; ...

Nuclear waste. We've all heard about it, but what is it? Is it a problem without a solution? How big is the problem? And what exactly is this waste and why is it so important? New Atlas takes a look ...

After more than four decades of intense struggle, the United States found itself in an unenviable and awkward position by 2015: It no longer had even the barest blueprint of how to dispose of its ...

FILE - A sign marks he Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, March 6, 2014, near Carlsbad, N.M. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File) ...

Editor’s note: This article is published after the passing away of Rod Ewing. The draft manuscript was prepared by both authors. It has been lightly edited for style, length, and clarity. Additional ...