The United States has roughly 90,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel sitting in temporary storage at reactor sites across ...

The world-first facility for permanently disposing spent nuclear fuel is set to begin operations in Finland after decades of ...

The country plans to accelerate the restart of atomic power plants. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Finland is weeks from licensing the world's first permanent nuclear waste repository. Here's what it means for the global ...

After decades of planning, arguing and engineering, workers at the Hanford nuclear reservation in southeast Washington this ...

In Finland, experts hope they have found a viable solution: burying the waste in bedrock over 1,000 feet underground. More ...

Japan is proposing a remote Pacific island as a possible host for a nuclear waste-disposal site, an important step in the ...

The mayor of a Japanese island chain in the Pacific has effectively expressed his intention to accept a first-stage survey to choose a final disposal site for high-level radioactive waste on one of ...

Onkalo is the world's first facility for permanently disposing radioactive spent nuclear fuel. It is expected to operate ...

The mayor of Ogasawara village in Tokyo announced on April 13 that he would accept a central government proposal to conduct a ...

LONDON/WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s plan to unleash a wave of small futuristic nuclear reactors to power the AI era is falling back on an age-old strategy to dispose of the highly toxic ...

With the push of a button, the elevator descends hundreds of meters in seconds into the dark depths of Onkalo. “We are now at ...