The Trump administration plans to make available about 20 metric tons of Cold War-era plutonium from dismantled nuclear ...

A contractor tasked with cleaning up Cold War nuclear waste at Los Alamos National Laboratory said it sent 200 shipments to a ...

The EPA has agreed to the Energy Department's request to dig out two new underground areas to store nuclear waste at the only ...

State lawmakers will consider draft legislation this week that would allow manufacturers of “advanced nuclear reactors” to store high-level radioactive waste at their Wyoming facilities.

Court ruling allows interim nuclear waste storage in Texas, but the U.S. still has no long-term plan for its 90,000 metric tons of spent fuel.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday restarted plans to temporarily store nuclear waste at sites in rural Texas and New Mexico, even as the nation is at an impasse over a permanent solution.

What is the future of WIPP, which was supposed to be a pilot project, especially with more plutonium pit production planned at Los Alamos National Laboratory? How long will WIPP remain open and will ...

CARLSBAD, N.M. (KRQE) – The U.S. Department of Energy says the 14,000th shipment of transuranic nuclear waste has been placed into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, New ...

Nuclear waste shipments to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant repository near Carlsbad were suspended for about two months as workers completed numerous maintenance projects at the underground facility.

In 2017, the year WIPP reopened in April of that year, there were just 133 shipments of nuclear waste sent to the site.

More: The WIPP facility near Carlsbad will mine new space to dispose of nuclear waste That meant 386 shipments, or about 79 percent of the total sent to WIPP in 2023, came from Idaho.