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Radioactive waste barrels. Credit: Recognize Productions from Pexels. Public domain.

Radioactive waste barrels. Credit: Recognize Productions from Pexels. Public domain.

A better way to store nuclear waste: Ask for consent.

By Seth P. Tuler, Thomas Webler | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Rendering of proposed HI-STORE Consolidated Interim Storage Facility

Rendering of proposed HI-STORE Consolidated Interim Storage Facility

Private, centralized storage for spent nuclear fuel: A dead end or path forward?

By David Klaus | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Opinion

Four powerful players want a nuclear waste solution. What’s stopping them?

By David Klaus | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

Energy Department representatives presented Yucca Mountain license application to the NRC on June 3, 2008.

Energy Department representatives presented Yucca Mountain license application to the NRC on June 3, 2008.

If Trump and Biden agree there shouldn’t be a nuclear waste site at Yucca Mountain, can’t we all?

By David Klaus | Nuclear Energy, Opinion

Deep borehole illustration

Nuclear waste disposal: Why the case for deep boreholes is … full of holes

By Lindsay Krall | Nuclear Energy

Greg Jaczko, the outsider who ran the Nuclear Regulatory Commission

By Dawn Stover | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

Hot potato in South Korea: The spent nuclear fuel storage dilemma

By Jungmin Kang, Seoc Woo Kim, Byong-Chul Lee | Nuclear Energy

South Korea in focus: The politics of spent fuel storage and disposal

By Jungmin Kang | Uncategorized