If the central government is going to carry it out, we will accept the decision,” Mayor Masaaki Shibuya said at a press conference on the day.

Sweden is constructing a $1 billion nuclear waste repository located over 500 meters deep in solid bedrock, designed to ...

The federal government will begin the long-awaited cleanup of a nuclear waste dump outside Apollo in Armstrong County.

More than 20 years after federal legislation added a Parks Township nuclear waste dump to a list of sites in need of ...

Small Modular Reactors promise safer, factory-built nuclear power, but critics question their cost and timeline in the race ...

The Swedish government said it plans to take a majority stake in nuclear project development company Videberg Kraft AB and to ...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Hanford Site has completed permanent disposal of its first batch of vitrified low-activity tank waste, marking a significant milestone in the long-running effort to ...

For us, it’s the next step in really demonstrating that we’re a great place for the nuclear industry to expand,” said one ...

Finland is weeks from licensing the world's first permanent nuclear waste repository. Here's what it means for the global ...

Japan is proposing a remote Pacific island as a possible host for a nuclear waste-disposal site, an important step in the ...

After decades of planning, arguing and engineering, workers at the Hanford nuclear reservation in southeast Washington this ...

Construction of Onkalo -- which means "cave" in Finnish -- began on the west coast in 2004. It sits on the secluded island of ...