Finland, one of the world's leading producers of nuclear energy, has spearheaded the project to store and hold 6,500 tonnes of uranium waste produced by the Onkalo plant. The complex is built to ...

The first-ever 'tomb' for nuclear waste, located nearly 1,500 feet below the surface, will soon be sealed off from humans for 100,000 years to break down safely. Finland's $4 billion Onkalo ...

Fast neutron reactors can increase efficiency of nuclear energy and shrink the environmental footprint of radioactive waste. Several countries are looking to these innovative reactors to help ensure a ...

The pristine waters off Cape Cod could become radioactive for as long as a month after a new study found that nuclear waste being dumped from the tony peninsula has a 'high probability' of lingering.

says a nuclear facility would "blight" the area Campaigners opposed to plans for a nuclear waste disposal site on the Lincolnshire coast say it could be "disastrous" for the seaside economy.

By and large the nuclear industry is one of the most likely global industries to be late and over budget. There is no real nuclear expertise in Australia; ° It will have to be more or less forced ...

The damp conditions at Oskarshamn are perfect for testing nuclear waste containers, says Ylva Stenqvist Earlier this year the Swedish government approved plans for a real geological disposal ...

But cleaning up nuclear waste is difficult. It can't be burned or buried. Soon, a waste management plant will turn the waste into glass, which can be stored away for thousands of years.

For nuclear waste, like so-called “forever chemicals”, never really dies. Peter Dutton claimed the nuclear waste from a small reactor each year would fit in a Coke can.Credit: Marija Ercogovac ...

Currently, Japan's nuclear waste is stored at power plants operated ... criticism that the fuel recycling project is making no real progress. With nowhere to go, a growing amount of spent fuel ...

Peter Dutton once claimed a small modular nuclear reactor would produce only a Coke can’s worth of waste.Credit: Marija Ercegovac But Australia has never had to confront the challenge of storing ...