Nuclear power plants are used primarily to generate electricity, and while they're often thought of as a cleaner energy source, there is a drawback. These power plants produce waste. This waste is ...
The United States is set to begin a cleanup mission of a nuclear waste dump ...
Yellow barrels of radioactive waste lined up on shelves - Onurdongel/Getty Images Nuclear energy isn't as clean as we like to believe. The associated power plants produce small amounts of nuclear ...
Disposing of deadly nuclear waste is hard enough, but all the effort is for naught if you can't stop people from digging it up again. This is especially tricky since radioactive waste stays dangerous ...
On a small island off Finland’s western coast, workers have spent more than two decades drilling, blasting, and reinforcing a ...
Finland’s Onkalo repository is nearing approval as the world’s first permanent underground nuclear waste storage site, ...