Garbage dump, Hvar island, Croatia, Southeast Europe

Garbage truck unloading trash

Garbage truck unloading trash

Bulldozer pushing trash

Pile of trash

Bulldozer pushing pile of trash

Recycled plastic bottle tops, Mozia, Sicily, Italy

Recycled plastic bottle tops, Mozia, Sicily, Italy

Slag heaps and Wehofen landfill, behind Dinslaken, Ruhr district, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Rusty barrel with a radiation warning symbol and lettering "Laufzeit verlaengert", German for "extended runtime"

Rusty barrel with a radiation warning symbol

TRUPACT shipping containers used to transport radioactive waste are moved at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant; nuclear waste from America's nuclear weapons program is shipped by truck from all over the country to be stored in rooms carved out of an ancient

Radioactive plutonium and americium waste from America's nuclear weapons program in TRUPACT shipping containers at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant; nuclear waste is shipped by truck from all over the country to be stored in rooms carved out of an ancient

Containers filled with transuranic nuclear waste from America's nuclear weapons program await burial at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant; the radioactive materials are then stored in rooms carved out of an ancient salt formation a half mile below the Chihu

Workers prepare transuranic nuclear waste from America's nuclear weapons program for long-term storage at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, here a fork lift moves a TRUPACT shipping container used to transport nuclear waste by truck from distant places.; t

Workers prepare transuranic nuclear waste from America's nuclear weapons program for long-term storage at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, here a worker checks radiation levels on the outside of storage containers because they are stored in rooms carved o

Brass tags are used to account for every person going underground at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, where radioactive waste from America's nuclear weapons program is stored in an ancient salt formation a half mile below, Carlsbad, New Mexico, USA

Waste disposal, Storage for recycling, beverage cans, Weissblech, Germany, Europe

Waste disposal, Storage for recycling, beverage cans, Weissblech, Germany, Europe

Temporary storage facility for radioactive waste, Ahaus, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Empty bottles on a bottle disposal

The submarine and cruiser trench at Hanford which has 96 reactor compartments from decommissioned navy ships.

Dry Cask storage. Twelve dry casks in a storage facility at Prairie Island Nuclear Generationg Station, MN.

The remote handling of spent fuel in the K Basin. The facility takes almost all the water out of the cannister by heating the water and replacing it with helium. The fuel has been in the water for many years and it is important to get the water out of the fuel for safe storage.

Three Mile Island waste. Transfer of an 80 ton cask holding radioactive debris from the Three Mile Island meltdown reactor. The material was shipped to INEEL 15 years ago for examination and storage until 2035. There are 12 cannisters in each cask. A total of 343 cannisters were shipped to INEEL from Three Mile Island.