Researchers at the DOE’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility are advancing two high-stakes projects ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A proposal to ship radioactive waste from Canada for disposal in Utah got the green light Friday from a body that monitors such activity. The decision by the NorthWest Interstate ...

Nuclear power plants are used primarily to generate electricity, and while they're often thought of as a cleaner energy source, there is a drawback. These power plants produce waste. This waste is ...

Note to readers • This story is made possible through a partnership between The Salt Lake Tribune and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. A Utah company wants to import massive ...

Will nuclear waste travel all the way from Ontario, Canada to a site about an hour drive from Salt Lake City? An interstate panel may consider a resolution later this month on whether to allow ...

Radioactive waste held in underground tanks has begun to be transferred for the first time to the massive Hanford nuclear site vitrification plant for long-awaited treatment for disposal. “This is a ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Two days ahead of a meeting focused on a proposal to dispose of Canadian radioactive waste at a Tooele County facility, a coalition of 85 groups, most of them environmental ...

An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team of experts has completed a follow-up mission to assess Spain’s progress in implementing the recommendations and suggestions made during a review of ...

New Croatian law paving the way for a radioactive waste disposal centre near the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina draws outrcy from Bosnian officials and environmentalists. A file photo dated 12 ...

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