The company constructing the massive vitrification plant at the Hanford site in Eastern Washington has been awarded $9.5 million in incentive pay for its work last year on the plant’s High Level Waste ...

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ANDREWS, Texas — The fight to keep high-level nuclear waste out of the Permian Basin is officially headed to the United States Supreme Court. The State of Texas is taking on a couple of parties, ...

With growing interest in nuclear power, handling waste should be part of the deal. Today, nuclear energy enjoys a rare moment ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear arguments in a case that could pave the way for Texas to host the nation’s first independent disposal ground for spent nuclear fuel. Currently, thousands ...

Scandinavian Breakthrough: Sweden and Finland are leading global efforts to solve nuclear waste challenges with underground repositories designed to last 100,000 years, while Norway is preparing to ...

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The Hanford nuclear reservation in Southeastern Washington was the epicenter of plutonium enrichment during WW II and through the Cold War. For more than 20 years, an effort to safely dispose and ...

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Nuclear waste is categorized into four types based on its level of hazardousness and disposal needs. High-level waste, often a focus of safety concerns, constitutes less than 0.25% of total ...

A Washington-based company has successfully validated its borehole technology for safe disposal of high-level radioactive waste from advanced reactor fuel recycling. Deep Isolation’s analysis ...