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Japan has raised global concern, after reportedly taking initial steps to explore a tiny ...

In 2008,l the U.S. Department of Energy applied to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a license to construct a geologic repository for the permanent disposal of high-level radioactive waste ...

US nuclear waste disposal company Deep Isolation Nuclear Inc announced that federally funded research has shown that deep ...

If you need your garbage collected, you call Waste Management. But if you're a nuclear power plant operator, don't bother calling the federal government—in 40 years they still haven't made a pickup.

The development and use of nuclear technology, which began in the early 1940s, has produced a substantial inventory of radioactive waste— material with no current or currently known future use. The ...

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. The question of how to dispose of nuclear waste is more ...

In 2008 the U.S. Department of Energy applied to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a license to construct a geologic repository for the permanent disposal of high-level radioactive waste ...

Russia put into operation its first near-surface final nuclear waste repository for solid low- and intermediate-level ...

Critics of Minamitorishima proposal point to scant research on the remote Pacific atoll Recent reports of Japan exploring the ...

Gov. Greg Abbott says the U.S. Supreme Court was supremely wrong when it ruled Wednesday that high-level nuclear waste can be stored 32 miles west of Andrews. Speaking for Abbott Wednesday night, ...

Volcanic hazard studies for disposal of high-level radioactive waste pose a number of unique problems. These include the long time frame of hazard assessment (10 4 to 10 6 yr), the limited geologic ...