Nuclear waste

Congress is pushing to move the process for transporting tons of high-level radioactive waste across 43 states.

With a federal promise to take highly radioactive spent fuel from nuclear plants still unfulfilled, closed reactors are dipping into funds set aside for their eventual dismantling to build waste storage on-site, raising questions about whether there will be enough money when the time comes.

New Mexico on Saturday levied more than $54 million in penalties against the U.S. Department of Energy for numerous violations that resulted in the indefinite closure of the nation’s only underground nuclear waste repository.

In terms of waste disposal, the nuclear waste situation in the United States is among the most serious of all industrial waste disposal situations

Swedes were once vehemently opposed to nuclear power, but the tide has changed, as is evident in public disinterest concerning Sweden’s nuclear waste disposal problems.