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Nuclear waste is radioactive waste created by nuclear power plants that no one wants to keep near their homes or even carried through their communities.
Human extinction is a fantasy, but the traces humans leave behind are not.
The deep geological repository in Canada will have multiple layers of natural and man-made protection to safely isolate spent nuclear fuel.
A scientist at the private fission company Transmutex has developed a new method that can reduce the radioactivity of nuclear waste by up to 80%.
A giant undersea grave planned to store Britain's growing amount of radioactive waste will become the country's most expensive and lengthy major infrastructure project.
In a move for sustainable nuclear waste management, Finland will become the first country to bury spent nuclear energy rods underground for long-term storage.
China inaugurated its first plant in Sichuan on September 11 to treat growing amounts of nuclear waste by vitrification.
Ukrainian authorities decided to remove the concrete dome surrounding the exploded reactor at Chernobyl to prevent it from collapsing after years of degradation.
Researchers recommend that people should not return to some of the Marshall Islands because the radioactivity is still higher than the safety threshold.
The Enewetak Atoll area was used by the US government to try 43 different nuclear explosions between 1948 and 1958.
When nuclear submarines are no longer in use, experts will dismantle them in a complicated and time-consuming process.
On a beautiful afternoon, Wired newspaper reporter went to the factory called
With the use of bacteria and inositol phosphate, which have the same chemical characteristics as plant waste, researchers at Birmingham University have already collected…
A section of nuclear waste storage at the US Hanford nuclear facility yesterday 9/5 suddenly collapsed, causing all workers here to evacuate.