Scientists found corroded barrels leaking radioactive material at a former Atlantic dumping site, where more than 150,000 ...

Approximately 47,800 containers of radioactive waste are sitting on the ocean floor off San Francisco. No salvage operation ...

A barrel oozing radioactive waste at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. (NODSSUM Campaign, CNRS, French Oceanographic Fleet) The second half of the 20th century was something of a golden age for ...

The first containers of glassified Hanford tank waste have been delivered to their final destination, the Integrated Disposal Facility, a lined landfill at the center of the Hanford nuclear site.

Imagine packing up radioactive waste in nearly 50,000 containers, dumping them in the middle of an ocean, and letting them ...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (KRQE) — The National Nuclear Security Administration and Los Alamos National Laboratory have finished depressurizing four tritium waste containers that have been in storage since ...

All radioactive waste shall be separated and stored into the following physical forms: Solid Waste Liquid Waste Sharps Waste Animal Carcasses Lead (Pb) shipping containers “RADIOACTIVE WASTE” or ...

Tomsk Polytechnic University has been commissioned by Rosatom's fuel division TVEL to create an innovative X-ray machine designed for non-destructive testing of containers with radioactive waste.

Four radioactive waste containers stored at Los Alamos National Laboratory have been successfully vented so they can be moved. The containers hold tritium waste, materials contaminated by a ...

The revival of nuclear power is accelerating efforts to develop permanent solutions for managing highly radioactive spent fuel.