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

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 ...

Britain’s nuclear dump in Cumbria is ‘virtually certain’ to leak radioactive waste and contaminate the coast, according to a report. Experts are concerned that the Drigg Low Level Waste Repository ...

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The construction of Bulgaria’s National Repository for Low- and Intermediate-Level Radioactive Waste is progressing, with total costs estimated at around 75 million euros. The project is scheduled for ...

The Canadian government has yet to decide whether it would allow recycling spent nuclear fuel in the country, as the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) announces it will be engaging with the ...

A second deep geological repository site is being sought by the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO), which has started a two-year engagement process to refine its site selection approach.

The BBC's Jane O'Brien takes an underground tour of the nuclear waste site before the radiation leak A recent radiation leak at America's only nuclear waste repository threatens the future of waste ...

Federal officials have backtracked on plans to cancel a lease for office space in New Mexico where dozens of U.S. Department of Energy employees who oversee the nation’s only underground nuclear waste ...

A recent radiation leak at America's only nuclear waste repository, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico, threatens the future of waste storage in the country. A fire on a salt-hauling ...