SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) - A 1,300-acre dump to bury low-level radioactive waste has opened in a remote corner of west Texas, the fourth U.S. site to allow such waste, despite concerns about water ...

The view from the backyard of David and Pam Mills, where the Department of Energy is building a giant nuclear waste dump site in Piketown, Ohio. Photo: Matthew Ashton (Earther) PIKETON, OHIO—David and ...

lobbied to open a nuclear waste disposal site Andrews County of west Texas near the New Mexico border. It's dry, empty country. Oil fields provide most of the jobs. It took Simmons some six years of ...

FILE - The first load of nuclear waste arrives in this March 26, 1999 file photo, at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) site in Carlsbad, N.M., from Los Alamos National Laboratory. Twenty years ...

An abandoned tunnel in the desolate Nevada desert, barricaded only by a chain-link fence, is all that remains of the nation’s tortured effort to create a permanent repository for nuclear waste 100 ...

McADOO, Pa. - More than 30 years ago, an abandoned mine in Pennsylvania coal country was turned into a dump for toxic waste. Lots of it. When government officials finally shut down the site in 1979, ...

Japan’s worsening depopulation crisis is crippling the public finances of regional towns. Now one small town has made national headlines after expressing interest in storing radioactive nuclear waste ...

When Nevada inherited the closed Beatty low-level nuclear waste dump in 1997, it accepted $9 million from the company that had operated it for decades to ensure that the waste — some of it tainted ...

Most of us think of our driveways as convenient temporary staging areas for all kinds of household stuff. Whether it's ...

Plagued by plastic pollution, Senegal wants to replace pickers at the garbage dump with a formal recycling system that takes advantage of the new market for plastics. Waste pickers searching for ...

There is 'no evidence' that a waste pile dumped illegally in Oxfordshire near the A34 has polluted the River Cherwell, says ...

In cities across India, land once buried under waste now serves people again, becoming football fields and urban forests ...