Police vehicles are parked at Philippsburg station as a train with containers carrying highly radioactive nuclear waste arrives in Philippsburg. For the first time in four years, a Castor transport ...

Welcome to the “Let’s Blow Up A Transportation Overpack for Nuclear Waste” show! This show is in development by the U.S. Department of Energy, has a budget of about $10 million, and aims to ease the ...

The approval marks the first time a coalition of Western states will allow the import and storage of foreign nuclear waste.

Congress and the president have finally jumped through all the prescribed hoops to officially approve Yucca Mountain, Nev., as the country’s first permanent high-level nuclear waste repository. The ...

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek and the state’s U.S. senators, Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, object to a federal proposal to potentially move by truck or train more than 30 million gallons of liquid radioactive ...

The Trump administration pushes nuclear power center stage. Vermont’s congressional delegation works to help communities storing the radioactive fuel left behind.

SPOKANE, Wash. – Spokane County is set to see the transport of nuclear waste from the Hanford site as part of a new initiative. The Washington Department of Ecology has confirmed the move despite ...

A Utah company is leading a charge to take and store radioactive waste from Canada. Opponents say it’s a bad idea, and that ...

SPOKANE, Wash. – Removing toxic waste from the Hanford nuclear site has created concern among Spokane City Council members and the community about the travel route and potential risks involved.

The transportation of radioactive materials should be included in the impact assessment for a proposed nuclear waste repository, environmental groups say. But the Nuclear Waste Management Organization ...

Plans to transport used nuclear fuel to Yucca Mountain repository would not be enacted before 2020, according to a new filing by the US Department of Energy (DoE). Plans to transport used nuclear fuel ...