The only permanent nuclear waste storage site in the country, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, has federal approval to add two new underground storage areas. The Waste Isolation Pilot ...

The U.S. Department of Energy has put cleanup of a hazardous waste disposal site at Los Alamos National Laboratory on hold, a ...

Fossil fuel industry allies in New Mexico’s government claim it’s safe to reuse toxic waste from oil and gas production outside of the oilfield. They’re wrong and they’re gambling with our water and ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Private nuclear power company Holtec said this week it is walking away from a project to store nuclear waste in New Mexico, despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June ...

General Electric (NYSE:GE) and United Nuclear Corp. agreed to a U.S. consent decree requiring an estimated $63M cleanup of uranium mine waste at sites in New Mexico and the Navajo Nation, the U.S.

The EPA has agreed to the Energy Department's request to dig out two new underground areas to store nuclear waste at the only permanent U.S. burial site for radioactive materials. Why it matters: ...

Holtec International is pulling the plug on plans to build a temporary storage site for commercial nuclear waste in southeastern New Mexico, citing state officials' fervent opposition. Why it matters: ...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (KRQE) — The National Nuclear Security Administration and Los Alamos National Laboratory are working to safely depressurize four containers holding nuclear waste that have been in ...

SANTA FE, N.M. — A private energy company is abandoning a proposal to store nuclear waste at a site in southeastern New Mexico. Holtec International described an “untenable path forward for used fuel ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – “Who the heck thought it was a good idea to build it where they built it?” asks State Representative Gail Armstrong. We don’t know who chose a remote spot on the New Mexico prairie ...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A private energy company is abandoning a proposal to store nuclear waste at a site in southeastern New Mexico. Holtec International described an “untenable path forward for used ...