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 ...

The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) has met its goal to complete eight shipments of transuranic waste to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico for permanent disposal ...

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

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Federal officials have backtracked on plans to cancel a lease for office space in New Mexico where dozens of U.S. Department of Energy employees who oversee the nation’s only ...

The heat produced by the radioactive waste strikes you when you enter the storage site of Ontario Power Generation at the ...

CARLSBAD, N.M. — The U.S. government is reportedly no longer terminating the lease of the office overseeing the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad. Democratic U.S. Rep. Gabe Vasquez said the ...

US radioactive waste disposal technology developer Deep Isolation has called for nuclear waste disposal to be included in the National Association of State Energy Officials' Advanced Nuclear First ...

LAS CRUCES — Alarm this week over reports that the Department of Energy’s field office in Carlsbad was being closed at the behest of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency appeared to be ...

As we continue to agonize over the fate of highly radioactive nuclear waste — and local cities throw their weight behind an effort to move San Onofre’s to higher ground on Camp Pendleton — we’d like ...