Police vehicles are parked at Philippsburg station as a train with containers carrying highly radioactive nuclear waste arrives in Philippsburg. For the first time in four years, a Castor transport ...

Welcome to the “Let’s Blow Up A Transportation Overpack for Nuclear Waste” show! This show is in development by the U.S. Department of Energy, has a budget of about $10 million, and aims to ease the ...

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek and the state’s U.S. senators, Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, object to a federal proposal to potentially move by truck or train more than 30 million gallons of liquid radioactive ...

The approval marks the first time a coalition of Western states will allow the import and storage of foreign nuclear waste.

SPOKANE, Wash. – Spokane County is set to see the transport of nuclear waste from the Hanford site as part of a new initiative. The Washington Department of Ecology has confirmed the move despite ...

SPOKANE, Wash. – Removing toxic waste from the Hanford nuclear site has created concern among Spokane City Council members and the community about the travel route and potential risks involved.

A Utah company is leading a charge to take and store radioactive waste from Canada. Opponents say it’s a bad idea, and that ...

The Trump administration pushes nuclear power center stage. Vermont’s congressional delegation works to help communities storing the radioactive fuel left behind.

Officials planned a workshop to "refine the resolution’s language." Outraged residents push back on controversial nuclear waste plan: 'The best chance we've got' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Plans to transport used nuclear fuel to Yucca Mountain repository would not be enacted before 2020, according to a new filing by the US Department of Energy (DoE). Plans to transport used nuclear fuel ...