However, the research found the implications are more widespread and less understood - with potential for the release of nuclear waste and radiation, unknown viruses and other chemicals of concern.

This is one of several misconceptions about nuclear energy: America’s nuclear waste is not buried in a mountain or tucked at the bottom of a deep, rocky cavern. It is sealed away in coffin-like ...

A nuclear power ... will be cleaned and mixed with lower-enriched uranium to make HALEU, Interesting Engineering detailed. It requires a high-temperature molten salt chemical bath and an electric ...

Hanford workers remove a failed pump from one of the Hanford nuclear site’s underground tanks storing 56 million gallons of a mix of radioactive and other chemical waste from the past production ...

To recover this highly enriched uranium, the spent nuclear fuel is prepared and placed into a high-temperature molten salt ...