The nuclear industry is unusual in that it has to factor waste disposal into the cost of a plant's operating lifetime, but experience has shown that dealing with the waste only makes up 10% of the ...

Fast neutron reactors can increase efficiency of nuclear energy and shrink the environmental footprint of radioactive waste. Several countries are looking to these innovative reactors to help ensure a ...

FORSMARK, Sweden, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Sweden started building a final storage facility for spent nuclear fuel on Wednesday, only the second such site in the world, where highly radioactive waste ...

South Korean activists have criticised Japan's plan, saying it will contaminate the ocean Japan's controversial plan to release treated waste water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the ...

Tokyo Electric Power Co. plans to excavate a massive slope that looms over a pool cooling nuclear fuel at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant to avert the danger of a landslide. The move ...

Cavendish Nuclear has been awarded the contract to build a container handling facility. Waste from the shaft ... is described as being like a swimming pool with a concrete roof.

An innovative effort to redefine nuclear waste management in the European Union has been launched. The "MaLaR – Novel 2D-3D Materials for Lanthanide Recovery from Nuclear Waste" project will use novel ...

The Kishida administration has unveiled a policy initiative to deal with high-level radioactive waste from nuclear power plants through “united government-wide” efforts. The government plans ...