A nuclear waste repository must seal in radioactive waste safely for one million years. Researchers currently have to study them and their processes in real underground laboratories but a virtual ...

Contractors with the Environmental Protection Agency will being work this summer on a repository north of Silverton to permanently store waste removed from mines within the Bonita Peak Mining District ...

In a ribbon cutting ceremony yesterday, January 9, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez formally reopened the world’s only operating deep geologic nuclear waste ...

A $100 million air shaft at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant nuclear waste repository near Carlsbad reached its planned depth and workers will begin connecting it to the rest of the underground. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico has reached a settlement with the U.S. Department of Energy over the renewal of a permit for ...

The United States Department of Energy released a Draft Plan for a Defense Waste Repository for public comment on December 16, 2016. The Defense Waste Repository would only be for nuclear waste ...

CARLSBAD, N.M. — Workers at the USA's only underground nuclear waste repository stowed two pallets of drums deep underground Wednesday for the first time in nearly three years. Since 1999, the U.S.

LONDON/WASHINGTON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - The Trump administration's plan to unleash a wave of small futuristic nuclear reactors ...

Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant on California's central coast has more than 1,300 tons of nuclear waste sitting on its back porch, waiting for pickup. The problem is, there's no one to pick it up.

As with much policy-setting in the Trump administration, a single tweet from the president on February 6 appeared to reverse a previous stance. The message about Yucca Mountain, the nation’s proposed ...

Bulgaria started construction of a national repository for low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste yesterday, marking the occasion with a ceremony. The repository is being built at the Radiana ...