Tomsk Polytechnic University has been commissioned by Rosatom's fuel division TVEL to create an innovative X-ray machine designed for non-destructive testing of containers with radioactive waste.

Fifteen years after the nation’s worst nuclear accident, the upper floors of the No. 1 reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear ...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (KRQE) — The National Nuclear Security Administration and Los Alamos National Laboratory have finished depressurizing four tritium waste containers that have been in storage since ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first containers of glassified Hanford tank waste have been delivered to their final destination, the Integrated Disposal ...

Hanford moves 1st radioactive capsules from underwater storage. The capsules could break and release radiation in a severe earthquake. Dry storage should be safer and reduces maintenance and ...

More than 20 containers of radioactive zinc have been stranded off the Philippine coast for over than a week and a solution for their disposal is needed "fast," a nuclear official said on Oct. 31.

Holtec International rang up a big deal this month when it inked a seven-year, $150 million contract to build a nuclear-waste storage site in Ukraine. The Marlton-based firm specializes in designing ...

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