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 ...

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 ...

SPOKANE, Wash. – Removing toxic waste from the Hanford nuclear site has created concern among Spokane City Council members and the community about the travel route and potential risks involved.

SPOKANE, Wash. – Spokane County is set to see the transport of nuclear waste from the Hanford site as part of a new initiative. The Washington Department of Ecology has confirmed the move despite ...

Nebraska’s $2,000 charge for transporting nuclear waste across the state is set to go up this year, likely in time to catch at least the end of an expected 30 radioactive shipments headed to New ...

The deadline of Feb. 4 is drawing closer, marking the closure of the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada's 30-day public ...

Experts want the responsibility for permanent disposal of nuclear waste in the hands of a nonprofit or similar corporate entity. Which is a nice way of saying the ...

The 3.6 million pounds of spent nuclear fuel stored at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) are a symptom of a national failure that has left nuclear waste stranded at more than 80 sites ...

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 ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown wrote a letter to multiple state and federal agencies opposing plans that could transport liquid radioactive waste through the city via trucks. According to ...