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 ...

SPOKANE, Wash. – The Washington Department of Ecology confirmed in a recent letter that 2,000 gallons of low-activity nuclear waste will pass through Spokane next year. This announcement has sparked ...

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 ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

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 ...

Plans to transport used nuclear fuel to Yucca Mountain repository would not be enacted before 2020, according to a new filing by the US Department of Energy (DoE). Plans to transport used nuclear fuel ...