Around the U.S., about 90,000 tons of nuclear waste is stored at over 100 sites in 39 states, in a range of different structures and containers. For decades, the nation has been trying to send it all ...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (KRQE) — The National Nuclear Security Administration and Los Alamos National Laboratory have finished depressurizing four tritium waste containers that have been in storage since ...

Nuclear power’s dirtiest secret is not how the fuel is made, but where it ends up sitting for decades: in crowded pools of ...

A Southern California Edison employee measures radiation at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station on March 10, 2020. (Photo: Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images) ...

Officials planned a workshop to "refine the resolution’s language." Outraged residents push back on controversial nuclear waste plan: 'The best chance we've got' first appeared on The Cool Down.

(THE CONVERSATION) Around the U.S., about 90,000 tons of nuclear waste is stored at over 100 sites in 39 states, in a range of different structures and containers. In March 2025, the U.S. Supreme ...

The decades-long struggle to find a permanent place to dispose of nuclear waste will continue, probably for many years to come. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Gerald Frankel, The Ohio State University (THE CONVERSATION) Around the U.S., about 90 ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Around the U.S., about 90,000 tons of nuclear waste is stored at over 100 sites in 39 states, in a range of different structures and containers. Remnants of the chemical processing ...