COVERT, MI — Stacked in neat rows, concrete and steel nuclear waste casks look not unlike large soda cans. But rather than a tasty beverage, the canisters contain spent fuel rods filled with used ...

The only permanent nuclear waste storage site in the country, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, has federal approval to add two new underground storage areas. The Waste Isolation Pilot ...

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Nuclear power is key to the United States’ plans to satisfy the nation’s growing energy needs. But there’s an unresolved problem: the waste it produces. Despite plans for an ambitious new generation ...

Nuclear waste. We've all heard about it, but what is it? Is it a problem without a solution? How big is the problem? And what exactly is this waste and why is it so important? New Atlas takes a look ...

Texas claims the Nuclear Regulatory Commission lacks authority to approve plans. Like a radioactive hot potato, a solution to America's growing stockpile of nuclear waste keeps getting passed around.

Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Grist. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The world’s first permanent depository for nuclear fuel waste opens later this ...

Despite growing support for nuclear energy and significant government investment, the U.S. grapples with the dilemma of managing highly radioactive nuclear waste. Proposed solutions include ...

US nuclear waste policy is at a critical turning point. Mired in decades of disappointments and shortcomings, the monkey on nuclear power’s back is just weeks away from being freed—or being strapped ...

A sign warning of radioactive materials is seen on a fence around a nuclear reactor containment building on April 26, 2021, a few days before it stopped generating electricity at Indian Point Energy ...

State lawmakers will consider draft legislation this week that would allow manufacturers of “advanced nuclear reactors” to store high-level radioactive waste at their Wyoming facilities. It would be ...