Finland is preparing to clear one of the final regulatory hurdles for what is ...

In addition to Utah, Tennessee, South Carolina and Nebraska have also stepped forward, willing to do all of the above.

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The doors slide open, revealing the entrance to what is expected to be the world's first permanent repository for radioactive ...

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Currently, there are thousands of metric tons of used solid fuel from nuclear power plants worldwide and millions of liters of radioactive liquid waste from weapons production sitting in temporary ...

Finland is preparing to open Onkalo, the world’s first permanent nuclear waste repository. Here’s how the underground vault ...

Deep under the pine forests of southwest Finland, the rock arrives first before anything else. It is old in a way that makes ...

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Federal officials have backtracked on plans to cancel a lease for office space in New Mexico where dozens of U.S. Department of Energy employees who oversee the nation’s only ...

Sweden has commenced construction of a final storage facility for spent nuclear fuel, where highly radioactive waste will be stored for 100,000 years. Currently, there are thousands of metric tons of ...

ALBAWABA - Finland has five nuclear reactors and before 1994 it used to ship its nuclear waste to Russia, a law change ...