Nuclear waste remains a major environmental hazard due to its long-lasting radioactivity, which can persist for thousands of years. However, new research by University of Sharjah scientists, published ...

Nuclear waste has become a kind of cultural shorthand for everything people fear about atomic power, from glowing green sludge to warnings that we are burdening distant descendants with our mistakes.

If the Nuclear Waste Management Organization’s proposed underground storage site, formally known as a deep geological repository (DGR) is approved, it would bury in a controlled environment nearly six ...

A new way to identify salts in nuclear waste melters could help improve clean-up technology, including at the Hanford Site, one of the largest, most complex nuclear waste clean-up sites in the world.

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 ...

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The demolition of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station is well underway. But what will happen to its radioactive waste sitting on the coastline? KPBS environment reporter Tammy Murga says San ...

The appointment of an independent review panel into a proposed underground storage site for spent nuclear-fuel rods is likely ...

In January, the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada (IAAC) initiated an assessment of a proposed nuclear waste repository in northwestern Ontario. The repository is being advanced by the Nuclear Waste ...

There is all manner of geopolitical and military fallout likely to come from the U.S. bombing of Iranian nuclear enrichment ...