San Onofre’s nuclear waste may be one step closer to being relocated, but at least one of the storage canisters containing ...

The San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant, which was shut down 12 years ago, remains a focal point of nuclear waste storage concerns ...

For now, though, most of it is stored in underground steel tanks, primarily at Hanford, Washington, and Savannah River, South Carolina, key sites in U.S. nuclear weapons development. At Savannah River ...

Around the U.S., about 90,000 tons of nuclear waste is stored at over 100 sites in 39 states, in a range of different structures and containers. For decades, the nation has been trying to send it ...

It is currently unknown where exactly the barrels are located, whether they are alone or in groups, and whether they are still intact.

For nearly five decades, more than 200,000 barrels of radioactive waste were dumped in the icy depths of the northeast ...

An international effort aims to assess the environmental impact of nuclear waste dumped in the ocean over half a century ago.

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The IAEA highlighted the role of nuclear science in protecting our oceans at the 2025 United Nations Oceans Conference held last week in Nice ...