The U.S. government launched a new operation extracting rare materials from Cold War era nuclear waste that is likely to ...

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 ...

The Onkalo nuclear waste disposal facility under-construction in Olkiluoto, Finland, will be the world’s first permanent geological repository for spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste.

A Utah company is leading a charge to take and store radioactive waste from Canada. Opponents say it’s a bad idea, and that ...

Chris Macey, service lead for Treatment and Conditioning Services at Nuclear Waste Services (NWS), reveals how his team is safely diverting huge quantities of nuclear waste away from permanent ...

The project, located deep beneath China's Gobi Desert, will be used for safe disposal of radioactive materials.

The long term problems of what to do with nuclear waste remain entirely unsolved, writes Andrew Blowers. Yet governments and the nuclear industry continue to peddle their untenable 'bury and forget' ...

A government agency says it is "considering other options" for the location of a nuclear waste disposal site on the Lincolnshire coast. Nuclear Waste Services' (NWS) plans for a geological disposal ...

Renewed effort to find site for underground disposal site will not allow veto for any one level of local government Local communities could be paid over £40m by government for simply considering the ...

According to the UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), the estimated cost of cleaning up the waste from 20th-century nuclear power plants currently stands at £131bn. What’s more, this figure ...

Isotek Systems, in partnership with TerraPower Isotopes, co-created by Bill Gates, are “producing cancer treatment material ...

The UK's civil and military nuclear industries are estimated to have bequeathed enough radioactive material to fill the Royal Albert Hall five times over, with a potential disposal cost of £85bn.