Nuclear Waste

A portion of an underground tunnel containing rail cars full of radioactive waste collapsed Tuesday at a sprawling storage facility in a remote area of…

The nation's only underground nuclear repository has received its first shipment of waste, more than three years after shipping was halted in response to…

Entergy Nuclear Operations shut down its Vermont power plant in 2014. But much of the waste from the facility remains, including 200,000 gallons of…

Testing is set to resume at a federally-managed nuclear waste treatment plant west of Idaho Falls.Tests at the Integrated Waste Treatment Unit will begin…

Work to clear radioactive waste from the Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project is nearly complete.The Post Register reports that according to the U.S.…

Earlier this month, the Navy announced plans to build a $1.6 billion facility in Idaho to handle fuel waste from the nation’s nuclear-powered submarines…

A $1.65 billion facility will be built at a nuclear site in eastern Idaho to handle fuel waste from the nation's fleet of nuclear-powered warships, the…

A recent audit found significant problems with the federally-managed nuclear waste treatment plant west of Idaho Falls.The Post Register reports the audit…

Scientists say a continued drop in underground water levels could make it harder to monitor the movement of radioactive contamination in an aquifer below…

Federal officials say they're taking public comments on a plan to ship two loads of spent nuclear fuel rods to eastern Idaho for research.The U.S.…