Waste become a problem. A deep-underground waste repository wasn’t always the preferred solution for dealing with US high-level waste. Before 1975, when the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) was split ...

Nuclear waste. We've all heard about it but what exactly is it and why is it so important? How big is the problem and is it a problem without a solution? New Atlas takes a look at the basics.

Court ruling allows interim nuclear waste storage in Texas, but the U.S. still has no long-term plan for its 90,000 metric tons of spent fuel.

The Supreme Court on June 18 rejected challenges to a nuclear waste storage site on the Texas-New Mexico border.

A second deep geological repository site is being sought by the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO), which has started a two-year engagement process to refine its site selection approach.

For the first time in decades, the United States is taking serious steps to rebuild its nuclear energy capacity. Recent ...

As some communities in far northwest Colorado discuss hosting a temporary nuclear waste storage facility, western leaders are ...

Over 200 people protested on Saturday near Pačejov in the Klatovy region, in the southwest of Czechia, against a planned deep nuclear waste repository.

Atomic Dreams explores nuclear energy's future in the U.S. through the history of Diablo Canyon, California's last operational nuclear power plant.

Some scholars and activists are raising concerns that Indigenous voices are not being heard amid the debate over whether to host nuclear waste storage facilities.