Nuclear waste is largely misunderstood, thanks to the Cold War and war movies. However, even if nuclear energy is safer than ...

Congress this week approved a $3.2 billion budget for the Hanford nuclear reservation’s cleanup in fiscal 2026 — a more than $200 million increase from the prior two years.

Such repositories raise complex ethical questions around public safety, particularly given the millennia-long timescales of ...

Deep under the icy waters of the Barents Sea, a long-hidden reminder of the Cold War has reappeared after 37 years. Russia’s ...

The presence of 3.55 million pounds of nuclear waste stored “temporarily” at the San Onofre nuclear power plant — which was permanently shut down in 2013 after severe problems with key plant equipment ...

How spent but still radioactive nuclear fuel rods are to be transported to a potential underground storage site near Ignace should come under scrutiny during an upcoming federal assessment of ...

A decades-old Soviet secret has resurfaced beneath Arctic waters after a Russian scientific expedition located a long-missing ...

More than 20 containers of radioactive zinc stranded in Manila Bay for months have been brought ashore to a “safe place,” the ...

If most people would need more than a month to plow through a thick tome by Dickens or Dostoevsky, how can they be expected to pore through a technical document ...

Nuclear Waste Program's efforts to oversee cleanup of one of the world's most complex nuclear sites. Join us as we look back ...

On Nov. 23, 1976, the Spokane Police Department received a note, handwritten by some person or group calling themselves ...

As Arctic ice thins and shipping lanes open, Russia has stumbled on a chilling legacy of the Cold War: a long-lost Soviet ...