The first 7.5-ton container of radioactive waste turned into a stable glass form was carefully set on the bottom of a vast ...

In Finland, experts hope they have found a viable solution: burying the waste in bedrock over 1,000 feet underground. More ...

The federal government will begin the long-awaited cleanup of a nuclear waste dump outside of Apollo in Armstrong County.

After decades of planning, arguing and engineering, workers at the Hanford nuclear reservation in southeast Washington this ...

Facilities that work with radioactive materials require practical solutions for small quantities of isotopes and radioactive waste.

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (KRQE) — The National Nuclear Security Administration and Los Alamos National Laboratory have finished depressurizing four tritium waste containers that have been in storage since ...

HANFORD, Wash. – The Washington Department of Ecology announced the transportation of the first containers of low activity nuclear waste to the Integrated Disposal Facility at the Hanford site. The ...

First glassified Hanford tank waste canisters moved to lined landfill. Integrated Disposal Facility be permanent disposal site for vitrified waste. Landfill can only accept low level radioactive waste ...

Tomsk Polytechnic University has been commissioned by Rosatom's fuel division TVEL to create an innovative X-ray machine designed for non-destructive testing of containers with radioactive waste.

Finland’s Onkalo repository is nearing approval as the world’s first permanent underground nuclear waste storage site, ...

To request an empty container or have a full container picked up, fill out the Request for Radioactive Waste Disposal form RW-50 Submit the form before Tuesday, 2:00 p.m. for pickup each week. We ...