A 180-ton lead and steel cask containing spent nuclear fuel will cross 13 states and travel more than 2,500 miles.

Thousands of tons of nuclear waste that will be dangerously radioactive for tens of thousands of years are piling up at 131 power plants and research labs across the US. Federal law requires that it ...

The federal government has a fund of $44.3 billion earmarked for spending on a permanent nuclear waste disposal facility in the United States. It began collecting money from energy customers for the ...

The Trump administration is advancing a plan that would concentrate roughly 100,000 tons of the nation’s most radioactive waste in a handful of communities willing to host it indefinitely. The ...

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Nevada Democrats failed Wednesday night to remove language from the House fiscal 2018 spending bill that would prohibit the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump in their state from being closed. EPA ...

As we continue to agonize over the fate of highly radioactive nuclear waste — and local cities throw their weight behind an effort to move San Onofre’s to higher ground on Camp Pendleton — we’d like ...