Developing a safe and reliable method for disposing of radioactive wastes is one of the chief obstacles to broader applications of nuclear power. Nearly a half century after the world's first nuclear reactor was opened, the United States still...

Regardless of the specific technologies to be employed, there are many technical and nontechnical considerations to be addressed before hazardous waste can be treated or disposed of at a given location. The specific nature and relative importance of...

The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIPP, is the world's first underground repository licensed to safely and permanently dispose of transuranic radioactive waste that is left from the research and production of nuclear weapons. It is located...

Radioactive trash from the defunct Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant near Denver could be trucked to New Mexico for permanent storage as soon as next month. Half a million barrels of waste from Rocky Flats and other nuclear facilities nationwide will be entombed...

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Two multi-ton clean rooms have been lowered into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant for eventual physics experiments that need to be shielded from cosmic rays and naturally occurring radiation on the surface of the Earth.WIPP, a Department of Energy's nuclear waste repository in salt beds...