Work on an almost half-billion-dollar rebuild of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant’s ventilation system was expected to conclude this year, with the system going online by 2026. The Safety Significant ...

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U.S. scientists are developing an innovation that could reduce nuclear waste storage time by 99.7%, transmuting long-lived radioactive materials into shorter-lived isotopes.

A contaminated drum of nuclear waste stranded at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant repository near Carlsbad could remain at the facility undisposed of and unable to go back to its location of origin for ...

A $100 million air shaft at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant nuclear waste repository near Carlsbad reached its planned depth and workers will begin connecting it to the rest of the underground. The ...

Nuclear waste shipments to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant repository near Carlsbad were suspended for about two months as workers completed numerous maintenance projects at the underground facility.

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 ...

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The UK Treasury has branded a proposed underground nuclear waste repository in Cumbria as “unachievable,” drawing sharp ...