Japan has identified Minamitorishima, a remote and uninhabited coral atoll in the western Pacific, as a potential site for ...

Sign up for The Morning Report with all your must-read news for the day. Sealed in steel containers near the beach at San Onofre, scores of spent nuclear fuel rods ...

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 ...

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 Department of Energy is looking at a way to speed up Hanford nuclear site environmental cleanup by having some waste with ...

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 ...

One of the highest-risk components of nuclear waste is iodine-129 (I-129), which stays radioactive for millions of years and accumulates in human thyroids when ingested. In the U.S., nuclear waste ...

A memorandum of understanding aimed at strengthening their existing partnership and nuclear environmental protection and radioactive waste management in Brazil has been signed by the country's ...