A 180-ton lead and steel cask containing spent nuclear fuel will cross 13 states and travel more than 2,500 miles.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Police vehicles are parked at Philippsburg station as a train with containers carrying highly radioactive nuclear waste arrives in ...

Deep Isolation’s Universal Canister System will be utilized in the Demonstration Program, has been extensively tested, and is ...

Welcome to the “Let’s Blow Up A Transportation Overpack for Nuclear Waste” show! This show is in development by the U.S. Department of Energy, has a budget of about $10 million, and aims to ease the ...

With about 48 hours left for initial comments on a proposed nuclear waste site, regional environmental advocates say they’re ...

Hundreds of people have been sharing how they feel about a project that could see Canada’s nuclear waste buried deep ...

Congress and the president have finally jumped through all the prescribed hoops to officially approve Yucca Mountain, Nev., as the country’s first permanent high-level nuclear waste repository. The ...

The deadline of Feb. 4 is drawing closer, marking the closure of the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada's 30-day public comment period on the Nuclear Waste Management Organization's (NWMO) initial ...

The Trump administration’s growing nuclear energy push now includes enlisting state help handling spent fuel, a politically ...

Experts want the responsibility for permanent disposal of nuclear waste in the hands of a nonprofit or similar corporate entity. Which is a nice way of saying the ...

SPOKANE, Wash. – Spokane County is set to see the transport of nuclear waste from the Hanford site as part of a new initiative. The Washington Department of Ecology has confirmed the move despite ...

Shipments of liquid nuclear waste from Canada could start crossing the Peace Bridge this month. A U.S. District Court judge in Washington, D.C., ruled Thursday that the U.S. Energy Department ...