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A solution for nuclear waste from power plants could finally be moving forward after the U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly May 10 to authorize continued licensing of Yucca Mountain as ...

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There are no major technical roadblocks for the Republic to store its nuclear waste – possibly deep underground – if the ...

WASHINGTON — Mounting opposition to proposed nuclear waste storage sites in Texas and New Mexico has kept Yucca Mountain in the national debate over what to do with the growing stockpile of ...

How will we know if a steel canister filled with highly radioactive nuclear waste is starting to crack? A scratch on one of the canisters at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, as detected from ...

A proposal to send used nuclear fuel to West Texas is another flashpoint in a long-running debate over nuclear energy and associated waste. A proposal to send used nuclear fuel to West Texas didn’t ...

PreussenElektra has completed the construction of a second interim storage facility for low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste at the Unterweser nuclear power plant. The German utility has ...

Amount of radioactive waste that can be kept in tanks allowed to breach legal limits to help cope with backlog caused by an accident in November 2013 Safety limits on the storage of some of the ...