EnergySolutions' plans to dispose of low-level radioactive waste from Canada in Tooele County have gotten an initial OK, ...

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

A coalition of 88 environmental groups opposes EnergySolutions' plans to dispose of radioactive waste at a Utah site, focus ...

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

A Utah-based company plans to ship international radioactive nuclear waste from Canada to the United States for disposal in ...

The largest generators of low-level radioactive waste in Nebraska are making plans to store the waste near their nuclear power plants when a South Carolina dump site closes its doors July 1. For years ...

Will nuclear waste travel all the way from Ontario, Canada to a site about an hour drive from Salt Lake City? An interstate panel may consider a resolution later this month on whether to allow ...

SEATTLE — For much of the 20th century, a sprawling complex in the desert of southeastern Washington state turned out most of the plutonium used in the nation’s nuclear arsenal, from the first atomic ...

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 ...

SAN ONOFRE, Calif. (FOX 5/KUSI) — The San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant, which was shut down 12 years ago, remains a focal point of nuclear waste storage concerns as 123 canisters of spent nuclear fuel ...

The U.S. Department of Energy is proposing to ship what has long been considered some of the world’s most deadly nuclear waste from South Carolina to burial grounds in the western United States under ...