Truck shipments carrying high-level liquid nuclear waste over the Peace Bridge and across Western New York’s highways en route to a South Carolina processing facility could start as early as ...

Shipments of liquid nuclear waste from Canada could start crossing the Peace Bridge this month. A U.S. District Court judge in Washington, D.C., ruled Thursday that the U.S. Energy Department ...

SPOKANE — The 2,000 gallons of liquid nuclear waste to be shipped out from the Hanford site next year are officially set to pass through Spokane. On Sept. 18, Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown published ...

If successful, it would become the world’s first nuclear reactor to destroy more long-lived waste than it produces, something no commercial reactor has ever achieved. Stellaria ...

Nuclear waste is one of the major environmental headaches of our time. ... PNNL took liquid nuclear waste from Hanford and used filters and ion columns to remove solids and the heavy metal cesium.

An underground nuclear waste storage tank in Washington state that dates to World War II appears to be leaking contaminated liquid into the ground, the U.S. Department of Energy said Thursday.

About 50 percent of waste shipments to WIPP since it opened in 1999 were from Idaho, per DOE records as of Sept. 3, and Sterling said cooperation between the two sites was essential to cleaning up ...

Nuclear waste tanks are constructed early in Hanford's development. (U.S. Department of Energy) A federal proposal to move radioactive nuclear waste from Washington through Oregon and onward to ...

Why are scientists mixing radioactive waste with liquid glass? Skip to main content. Open menu Close menu. Live Science. ... There's 90,000 tons of nuclear waste in the US.

Nuclear waste at Hanford has been a disaster waiting to happen for generations. One of the biggest concerns has always been the radioactive material seeping into groundwater or, worse, the ...

A crumbling nuclear waste site in Cumbria is leaking thousands of litres of radioactive water into the ground every day, a report by Whitehall’s spending watchdog has warned. The so-called ...

The 2,000 gallons of liquid nuclear waste to be shipped from the Hanford site next year are officially set to pass through Spokane. On Sept. 18, Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown published an objection ...