A Utah company is leading a charge to take and store radioactive waste from Canada. Opponents say it’s a bad idea, and that ...

EnergySolutions' plans to dispose of low-level radioactive waste from Canada in Tooele County have gotten an initial OK, ...

Former government officials say the state isn’t doing enough to regulate fracking waste, even as new research shows it’s far ...

The Department of Energy Tuesday announced incentive payments of $89 million to five contractors working at the Hanford ...

The approval marks the first time a coalition of Western states will allow the import and storage of foreign nuclear waste.

The U.S. Department of Energy announced the successful completion of major optimizations at the Savannah River Site, ...

EnergySolutions is pursuing a proposal to import 1.31 million cubic yards of low-level Canadian radioactive waste for disposal in Tooele County.

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 ...

A coalition of 88 environmental groups opposes EnergySolutions' plans to dispose of radioactive waste at a Utah site, focus ...

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., ...

As Wyoming communities recoil from nuclear waste, the Idaho National Lab continues to embrace waste as an untapped ...

Entities that fail to treat or dispose of radioactive solid waste generated by them in accordance with national regulations ...