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

Drums of highly toxic radioactive transuranic wastes set inside a salt cavern at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad New Mexico March 20 2006. WIPP chief scientist Roger Nelson oversees the ...

Nuclear waste is largely misunderstood, thanks to the Cold War and war movies. However, even if nuclear energy is safer than ...

Sweden's radioactive nuclear waste will be stored in a sealed bedrock repository for 100,000 years. It will be hazardous for a very long time. So how can we ensure that humanity does not forget that ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A proposal to ship radioactive waste from Canada for disposal in Utah got the green light Friday from a body that monitors such activity. The decision by the NorthWest Interstate ...

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 ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Two days ahead of a meeting focused on a proposal to dispose of Canadian radioactive waste at a Tooele County facility, a coalition of 85 groups, most of them environmental ...

Note to readers • This story is made possible through a partnership between The Salt Lake Tribune and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. A Utah company wants to import massive ...

Norwegian Nuclear Decommissioning has invited the municipalities to express an interest in taking part in the process of finding a suitable location for storage facilities for radioactive waste. An ...

Will nuclear waste travel all the way from Ontario, Canada to a site about an hour drive from Salt Lake City? An interstate panel may consider a resolution later this month on whether to allow ...