The Department of Energy is looking at a way to speed up Hanford nuclear site environmental cleanup by having some waste with ...

"The same goes for the legal or financial responsibility." Officials spark backlash with concerning plan for nuclear waste: ...

The Office of Nuclear Energy has selected five companies in the US to research ...

Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy have "launched a new radiochemical separation process at the Savannah River National Laboratory to recover rare isotopes from Mark-18A targets produced ...

Most nuclear energy is thermal. All that complex nuclear physics and chemistry serve merely to create steam that spins a turbine, the same as any combustion-based power plant does. But what if you ...

The UK Treasury has branded a proposed underground nuclear waste repository in Cumbria as “unachievable,” drawing sharp ...

Geological disposal, optimized materials and greater use of digital tools to enhance communication with stakeholders are among the innovations the nuclear industry is developing to address outstanding ...

Nelson’s appointment comes as Deep Isolation accelerates its momentum. Just weeks after launching its full-scale demonstration program at the Deep Borehole Demonstration Center near Cameron, Texas, ...

Some 2,000 gallons of radioactive and hazardous chemical waste that had been stored in underground tanks has been shipped off the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington for disposal after it is ...

The Department of Energy on Wednesday signed the paperwork needed to allow radioactive waste to be pumped into the Hanford nuclear site’s vitrification plant 23 years after construction began, said ...

This Research Topic presents the state of the art achieved after about 40 years of research in several selected thematic fields of radioactive waste management and disposal. Research in this area has ...

Potential impacts on ground-water, tourism, mental health, as well as the prospect of truck crashes involving radioactive materials, are among a myriad of concerns being formally raised in response to ...