but they produce a significantly higher volume of nuclear waste. Despite concerns about nuclear waste, the development and deployment of microreactors continue to gain momentum, driven in part by ...

DOE insists the OSWDF is a state-of-the-art facility that, when filled, completed and capped, will seal in the toxic threat ...

Is permanent storage the only strategy for dealing with nuclear waste? No, says Prof. Kristina Kvashnina of the Helmholtz-Zentrum-Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR). With the aid of new EU funding ...

Parker Yamasaki covers arts and culture at The Colorado Sun as a Poynter-Koch Media and Journalism Fellow and former Dow ...

Missouri officials are warning the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that there is a “high likelihood” radioactive ...

As safety engineers put together the overall story of repository safety, including barrier redundancy, they sometimes lack the in-depth scientific background in each of ... For example, nuclear waste ...

Vast quantities of topsoil collected during decontamination work after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster are ... about 6,000 cubic meters of waste, followed by Fukushima with about 2,000 ...

The Chornobyl nuclear power plant is slowly but surely moving towards a safer future. The State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine has officially given the Chornobyl plant the green light to ...

Finland's Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority has said it is on track to complete its assessment of Posiva Oy's operating licence application for the world's first used nuclear fuel repository and ...