U.S. scientists are developing an innovation that could reduce nuclear waste storage time by 99.7%, transmuting long-lived radioactive materials into shorter-lived isotopes.

Some 2,000 gallons of low-level, liquid radioactive waste are set to be shipped from the Hanford Site in Richland next year, and they might be passing through Spokane. Part of a $17 million United ...

In early July, a wasp nest with a radiation level 10 times what is allowed by federal regulations was found inside the grounds of a sprawling Cold War-era nuclear site in South Carolina that today ...

Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown first learned through the grapevine about the federal government’s plan to ship radioactive wastes through her city. Spokane County Commissioner Amber Waldref belongs to the ...

Workers at a site in South Carolina that once made key parts for nuclear bombs in the U.S. have found a radioactive wasp nest but officials said there is no danger to anyone. Employees who routinely ...

DOE gets more time to decide where to grout Hanford liquid radioactive waste for disposal. Options include on-site Hanford, Perma-Fix in Richland, or sites in UT or TX. Spokane and Oregon officials ...

In a bizarre and unsettling discovery, workers at South Carolina’s Savannah River Site found a radioactive wasp nest near storage tanks holding liquid nuclear waste, according to a recent report from ...

The U.S. Department of Energy reported Friday a tank storing radioactive waste at Washington’s Hanford nuclear reservation is leaking between 150 to 300 gallons per year. The news raises concerns ...

Russia's state nuclear corporation Rosatom says it has created a technology for processing liquid radioactive sodium coolant which will allow decommissioning of fast neutron reactors. (Image: Rosatom) ...