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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Police vehicles are parked at Philippsburg station as a train with containers carrying highly radioactive nuclear waste arrives in ...

Welcome to the “Let’s Blow Up A Transportation Overpack for Nuclear Waste” show! This show is in development by the U.S. Department of Energy, has a budget of about $10 million, and aims to ease the ...

Deep Isolation’s Universal Canister System will be utilized in the Demonstration Program, has been extensively tested, and is ...

Congress and the president have finally jumped through all the prescribed hoops to officially approve Yucca Mountain, Nev., as the country’s first permanent high-level nuclear waste repository. The ...

SPOKANE, Wash. – Spokane County is set to see the transport of nuclear waste from the Hanford site as part of a new initiative. The Washington Department of Ecology has confirmed the move despite ...

Malaysia has taken a major step toward strengthening public and environmental safety with the rollout of a newly amended ...

SPOKANE, Wash. - Mayor Lisa Brown is pushing back against plans to send untreated liquid waste from the Hanford Nuclear Site through Spokane, citing risks to residents and the environment. The City of ...

Hundreds of people have been sharing how they feel about a project that could see Canada’s nuclear waste buried deep ...

The deadline of Feb. 4 is drawing closer, marking the closure of the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada's 30-day public comment period on the Nuclear Waste Management Organization's (NWMO) initial ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown wrote a letter to multiple state and federal agencies opposing plans that could transport liquid radioactive waste through the city via trucks. According to ...