The Association of State and Territorial Solid Waste Management Officials (“ASTSWMO”) published a January 2026 report titled: Solid Waste Landfills and Radioactive Material Survey Report (“Report”).

Scientists have used the power of AI to analyze and predict the conversion of liquid radioactive waste into solid glass waste forms, increasing the amount of waste that goes into each container of ...

Fracking’s Forever Problem: Fourth in a series about the gas industry’s radioactive waste. For years, residents of Grove City, Pennsylvania, have fought to stop a decades-old landfill from resuming ...

One of the highest-risk components of nuclear waste is iodine-129 (I-129), which stays radioactive for millions of years and accumulates in human thyroids when ingested. In the U.S., nuclear waste ...

State officials aren't convinced DOE's plan would result in more Hanford site waste treated for disposal.

First vitrified Hanford radioactve waste disposed of at site. 30 containers of glassified waste staged as disposal started. DOE says its an important step in Hanford nuclear site cleanup. Richland, ...

Courtesy of the U.S. Department of Energy Suzanne Dahl has worked to treat radioactive tank waste at the Hanford cleanup site in southeast Washington for more than 30 years. For Dahl, the tank waste ...

The first 7.5-ton container of radioactive waste turned into a stable glass form was carefully set on the bottom of a vast new landfill at Hanford in Eastern Washington Wednesday, its permanent ...