Sellafield, in Cumbria, is the "temporary home to the vast majority of the UK's radioactive nuclear waste", said the BBC, "as well as the world's largest stockpile of plutonium". It's stuck there ...

Both the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and the Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Japan (NUMO), which are in charge of the repository project, say the process will not move ...

The Nuclear waste disposal team is based at the Department of Chemistry on the Kumpula Science campus. Our research is focused on providing parameters for the safety analysis of the final disposal of ...

near Mercury, Nev. Nevada is asking the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission to restart its look at licensing the mothballed Yucca Mountain national radioactive waste repository, with the ...

SUTTSU, Hokkaido--Backers of keeping their town on a list of candidates for a nuclear waste depository won a majority in a municipal assembly election here, but those opposed to the project ...

A team of researchers from the University of Saskatchewan (USask) has discovered that an innovative glass-ceramic composite could show promise for the safe, long-term storage of nuclear waste.

“The French policy is that we should not leave the burden of our [nuclear] waste to future generations: that means we are obliged today to develop a solution to protect them - definitely and ...

Berkeley power station closed in 1989 but it has only now been safe to remove its nuclear waste Work has begun on removing nuclear waste from Berkeley power station, 30 years after it was ...

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 ...

At first, it was military nuclear tests, and then it was civil nuclear power: all of it produces radioactive waste, and that needs to go… somewhere. ‘Things that were ruled out along the way ...

Provisions in the AUKUS agreement between Australia, the UK, and US related to nuclear waste management and political commitments have sparked significant public criticism in Australia.