There are over 100 nuclear waste storage sites across the U.S., most located near nuclear plants such as those in Hanford, ...

Virginia-Based Jefferson Lab will find ways to transform nuclear waste into usable electricity while also drastically ...

A multimillion-dollar government project is betting that particle accelerators can "burn" through the world's most dangerous ...

As Japan takes the final steps toward restarting the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant, the world’s largest nuclear facility, familiar debates are resurfacing: reactor safety, seismic risk, and ...

As we continue to agonize over the fate of highly radioactive nuclear waste — and local cities throw their weight behind an effort to move San Onofre’s to higher ground on Camp Pendleton — we’d like ...

Japan has identified Minamitorishima, a remote and uninhabited coral atoll in the western Pacific, as a potential site for permanent nuclear waste disposal. The proposal marks the first time the ...

"The same goes for the legal or financial responsibility." Officials spark backlash with concerning plan for nuclear waste: ...

A team of researchers has initiated a deep drilling project underneath a mountain in ...

London/Washington — The Trump administration's plan to unleash a wave of small futuristic nuclear reactors to power the AI era is falling back on an age-old strategy to dispose of the highly toxic ...

Nuclear power produces enormous amounts of electricity with almost no carbon emissions, but it leaves behind something that can remain dangerous for thousands of years. The United States alone has ...

Nuclear energy is hot and everyone wants a piece of the action. President Donald Trump has announced his vision to quadruple America’s nuclear capacity by 2050, and 33 countries signed a declaration ...

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 ...