DOE was required by the legally binding Tri-Party Agreement to decide by Dec. 31 where to grout some of its low-activity ...

Wash., used her powerful position in Congress to help Tri-Cities science, environmental and historical projects.

A growing number of countries are planning a permanent solution to the issue of radioactive waste by burying it deep ...

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 views of young people are being sought as part of proposals to build a new underground nuclear waste site. The Mid ...

The Department of Energy Tuesday announced incentive payments of $89 million to five contractors working at the Hanford nuclear site in fiscal 2025. All earned at least 90% of the maximum possible ...

The only permanent nuclear waste storage site in the country, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, has federal approval to add two new underground storage areas. The Waste Isolation Pilot ...

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The Tokyo Electric Power Company, Tepco, has said that two specially designed and newly installed robots will need three years to remove 3,000 sandbags from the basements of the three destroyed ...