Distrust over the federal government's ability to build a permanent repository played a critical role in committee’s decision ...

Sweden has begun constructing a nuclear waste repository to store radioactive waste deep underground near the Forsmark nuclear power plant. Holes will be drilled into solid rock to accommodate ...

Swedish radioactive waste management company Svensk Kärnbränslehantering (SKB) has begun excavation works to extend its Final ...

Cañon City in southern Colorado is still dealing with the fallout of radioactive contamination from decades ago. A nuclear ...

Nuclear power producers want to put spent fuel rods below ground near Ignace, but some grassroots groups continue to oppose ...

The host municipality for a potential nuclear waste repository is looking into the possibilities for the airport it hasn’t used in years.

The repository's design aims to provide protection for 100,000 years and withstand geological changes, climate-related disasters, and future ice ages.

A new nuclear waste shelter in Sweden, among the first in the world of its kind, follows political ambitions and a sudden ...

Blasting work 45 metres below ground has begun, marking the start of the expansion of Sweden's existing SFR final repository ...

A ground-breaking ceremony has taken place marking the start the construction of Sweden’s final repository for used nuclear ...

Last November, the town of Ignace and Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation agreed to house Canada’s nuclear waste in an underground ...