The first capsules of high-level radioactive waste have been removed from a water-filled pool at the Hanford nuclear site to prepare them for safer dry storage in steel-lined, reinforced-concrete ...

A Southern California Edison employee measures radiation at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station on March 10, 2020. Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images Around ...

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 ...

Nuclear power plants are used primarily to generate electricity, and while they're often thought of as a cleaner energy source, there is a drawback. These power plants produce waste. This waste is ...

Nearly 80 years of nuclear waste in the US is currently stranded, stuck in "temporary" storage sites without a permanent place to go. These sites are well secured, but have some drawbacks, especially ...

Dry casks sit at the site of the Palisades Nuclear Generating Station in southwest Michigan. Indiana gets some of its energy from the D.C. Cook nuclear plant just a few miles south of Palisades.

The first container has been filled with long-lived low- and intermediate-level waste from the used fuel pools of unit 3 at Belgium's Doel nuclear power plant, which was shut down in September 2022 ...

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Nuclear power is among the cleanest energy sources on Earth, but the materials that fuel it can degrade during operation. A ...