China has disposed of nuclear waste by turning it into glass as the country continues on its path to generate more nuclear power. The disposal technique was carried out on Saturday at a facility in ...

Carolyn Pearce is busy digging up, cutting up and even x-raying ancient glass across the globe for study. Why? She’s trying to figure out the properties of the strongest glass on earth today, ones ...

The Cold War left behind significant amounts of low-level nuclear waste, but the future may be a bit cleaner thanks to a team of scientists at the US Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National ...

The Hanford site vitrification plant has filled a first container with test glass in a step toward glassifying radioactive waste to allow the permanent disposal of waste — some stored since World War ...

UPDATE: October 15, 2025 at 4:44 p.m. Washington Representative Dan Newhouse responded to the development of the Low-Activity Waste Facility project with the following statement: "Today is a historic ...