In December, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted to explore sending the nuclear waste from the San Onofre Nuclear ...

The Hanford Tank Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant was built to turn that nuclear waste into glass; it started operating in October 2025. The history of the Hanford Site and the way the stored ...

There are over 100 nuclear waste storage sites across the U.S., most located near nuclear plants such as those in Hanford, ...

As Washington's energy industry and lawmakers take another look at nuclear power as a way to reach a carbon-free energy ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 28 (Reuters) - The U.S. said on Wednesday it is seeking input from U.S. states on any interest they have in hosting sites for developing the nuclear fuel lifecycle, which includes ...

A multimillion-dollar government project is betting that particle accelerators can "burn" through the world's most dangerous ...

A nuclear production facility in Washington state, called the Hanford site, once forged the plutonium that reshaped the world. Now it’s forging glass; a quiet act of undoing at one of Earth’s most ...

The U.S. Department of Energy is betting $40 million that scientists can shrink the danger window of spent nuclear fuel from ...

S1: Welcome in San Diego. It's Jade Hindman. On today's show , we'll tell you about plans for San Onofre spent nuclear waste. This is KPBS Midday Edition. Connecting our communities through ...

The collapse of a tunnel at the most contaminated nuclear waste site in the United States has raised safety concerns at such facilities described by some as ticking time bombs. Workers on Wednesday ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. said on Wednesday it is seeking input from U.S. states on any interest they have in hosting sites for developing the nuclear fuel lifecycle, which includes storing nuclear waste ...