As Washington's energy industry and lawmakers take another look at nuclear power as a way to reach a carbon-free energy future, a perennial question is reemerging: What happens to the waste? Why it ...

The Savannah River Site has a total of 51 waste tanks. Eight of those tanks have been operationally closed. (From Savannah River Site fact sheet, May 2022, U.S. Department of Energy) Around the U.S., ...

There are over 100 nuclear waste storage sites across the U.S., most located near nuclear plants such as those in Hanford, ...

Nuclear power plants are used primarily to generate electricity, and while they're often thought of as a cleaner energy source, there is a drawback. These power plants produce waste. This waste is ...

A multimillion-dollar government project is betting that particle accelerators can "burn" through the world's most dangerous ...

The Hanford Tank Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant was built to turn that nuclear waste into glass; it started operating in October 2025. The history of the Hanford Site and the way the stored ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday restarted plans to temporarily store nuclear waste at sites in rural Texas and New Mexico, even as the nation is at an impasse over a permanent solution. The justices, ...

SANTA FE, N.M. — A private energy company is abandoning a proposal to store nuclear waste at a site in southeastern New Mexico. Holtec International described an “untenable path forward for used fuel ...

A team of researchers has initiated a deep drilling project underneath a mountain in ...

(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 ...