The containers ... nuclear waste far underground could be vulnerable to damage, researchers report. Across America, there are over 90,000 metric tons of nuclear waste that require disposal ...

A large amount of accumulated nuclear waste is stored in various containers and facilities at more than 100 sites in 39 ...

Current plans for disposal of some of the most dangerous material generated in nuclear power plants, such as radioactive elements extracted from spent fuel rods, differ from one country to another.

The document effectively destroys Britain's already shaky disposal plans just as ministers are preparing an expansion of nuclear power. It shows that many containers used to store the waste are ...

Researchers sent a nuclear waste container on a 14,500-mile odyssey ... to repackage all of these fuel rods into smaller, lighter disposal packages. And if we have to do that, and I hope we ...

While nuclear disposal experts believe the existing techniques are effective, there is ongoing debate as to whether they can last long. Article continues below Posiva claims that its containers ...

This material - also known as depleted uranium tails - is left over from previous enrichment operations ... DOE issues decision on disposal The DOE on 5 June issued a Record of Decision (ROD), which ...

WSVN-TV reports that the container was about 75% full of a product that indicated it was uranium. "There was a spill or leak in that work area," the Miami TV station says. During the initial ...

England – the only one of its kind in the UK – stores low concentration uranium 'tails' for further use, or conversion to a chemically stable form for disposal. Uranium is the most widely used ...

Following a "rigorous procurement process", US engineering firm Bechtel has been selected by uranium enrichment services provider Urenco to support the expansion of the Tails Management Facility at ...