ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, Ill. — The Joint Munitions Command serves as the provider for low-level radioactive waste and low-level mixed waste disposition for the Department of Defense and other federal ...

AUSTIN Governor Greg Abbott has appointed Ryan Anwar of Midland and reappointed John Salsman of Driftwood to the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission for terms set to expire ...

RICHLAND — More than two decades after construction of the Hanford nuclear site’s massive vitrification plant began, the plant has taken one of the final steps to begin treating waste for disposal as ...

A nearly completed nuclear waste repository in Texas will be receiving low-level radioactive waste from 15 utilities across the U.S. Waste Control Specialists in Dallas signed an agreement with ...

Nuclear waste is largely misunderstood, thanks to the Cold War and war movies. However, even if nuclear energy is safer than ...

An operating permit which is valid until 2095 has been issued by the Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority of Finland for a ...

The largest generators of low-level radioactive waste in Nebraska are making plans to store the waste near their nuclear power plants when a South Carolina dump site closes its doors July 1. For years ...

One of the highest-risk components of nuclear waste is iodine-129 (I-129), which stays radioactive for millions of years and accumulates in human thyroids when ingested. In the U.S., nuclear waste ...

TVO has received an operating permit from Finnish regulator STUK for its low-level nuclear waste facility in Olkiluoto.

Norway should build a deep geological landfill for high-level waste and a medium-depth geological repository for low- and intermediate-level waste, a group of experts considering solutions for the ...

An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team of experts has completed a follow-up mission to assess Spain’s progress in implementing the recommendations and suggestions made during a review of ...