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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Note to readers •This story is made possible through a partnership between The Salt Lake Tribune and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. For the first time, leaders of Western states ...

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.

SPOKANE, Wash. — Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown wrote a letter to multiple state and federal agencies opposing plans that could transport liquid radioactive waste through the city via trucks. According to ...

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 ...