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

A Utah-based company plans to ship international radioactive nuclear waste from Canada to the United States for disposal in ...

The approval marks the first time a coalition of Western states will allow the import and storage of foreign nuclear waste.

EnergySolutions' plans to dispose of low-level radioactive waste from Canada in Tooele County have gotten an initial OK, ...

The ARPA‑E‑funded project involved testing a universal canister for advanced reactor used fuel and high‑level waste in multiple repository types.

A coalition of 88 environmental groups opposes EnergySolutions' plans to dispose of radioactive waste at a Utah site, focus ...

Around the U.S., about 90,000 tons of nuclear waste is stored at over 100 sites in 39 states, in a range of different structures and containers. For decades, the nation has been trying to send it all ...

A request for bids for possibly $4 billion worth of work at the Hanford nuclear site to grout and dispose of radioactive waste was released Tuesday. The Department of Energy is pursuing a two-pronged ...

EnergySolutions is pursuing a proposal to import 1.31 million cubic yards of low-level Canadian radioactive waste for disposal in Tooele County.

A day after a permit for nuclear disposal in southeast New Mexico was issued, workers at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant were ready to begin mining new space for the waste. The New Mexico Environment ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The Rochester Institute of Technology is getting funding to study ways to improve the underground storage of nuclear waste. The RIT will get $500,000 from the Nuclear Regulatory ...

The Board of Supervisors agreed to support research and development aimed at recycling hundreds of tons of spent nuclear fuel ...