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The underground Exploratory Studies Facility at Yucca Mountain in Nevada

Opportunities for US-Russian collaboration on the safe disposal of nuclear waste

By Cameron Tracy, Sulgiye Park, Maria Plevaka, Ekaterina Bogdanova | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Waste

Waste Isolation Pilot Plant receives 12,500th shipment of transuranic waste

Can the Energy Department store 50 tons of weapons-grade plutonium for 10,000 years?

By Robert Alvarez | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Waste makes haste: How a campaign to speed up nuclear waste shipments shut down the WIPP long-term repository

By Vincent Ialenti | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

How to build a better sepulcher: Lessons from New Mexico’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant

By Jon Goldstein | Uncategorized