The U.S. government launched a new operation extracting rare materials from Cold War era nuclear waste that is likely to ...

An innovative effort to redefine nuclear waste management in the European Union has been launched. The "MaLaR – Novel 2D-3D Materials for Lanthanide Recovery from Nuclear Waste" project will use novel ...

Is permanent storage the only strategy for dealing with nuclear waste? No, says Prof. Kristina Kvashnina of the Helmholtz-Zentrum-Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR). With the aid of new EU funding, she wants ...

More than 70 nuclear tests left behind massive amounts of radioactive waste on this island. The material was sealed inside a concrete dome and largely forgotten. Decades later, the structure is ...

The United States is preparing to mine a rare nuclear resource from some of its most dangerous Cold War legacies, turning ...

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Europe has been turning uranium into energy for over half a century. In the process, the continent has amassed vast stockpiles of nuclear waste. This radioactive material can take millions of years to ...

Nuclear waste. We've all heard about it, but what is it? Is it a problem without a solution? How big is the problem? And what exactly is this waste and why is it so important? New Atlas takes a look ...