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”).

Nuclear power plants are used primarily to generate electricity, and while they're often thought of as a cleaner energy source, there is a drawback. These power plants produce waste. This waste is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When John Quigley became the secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection in 2015, he knew that he would be busy trying to keep up with the consequences of the state’s rapid ...