Engineers have selected the site for its geological stability, absence of resources, and buy-in from Indigenous groups.

State regulators said that years of missed cleanup deadlines for the toxic by-products from the Cold War era are increasing the risks of nuclear contamination. With the recent expiration of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The UK Treasury has branded a proposed underground nuclear waste repository in Cumbria as “unachievable,” drawing sharp ...

The problem of nuclear reactor waste will have to be resolved as nuclear energy becomes more frequently adopted as the world's source of power. No one is pro nuclear waste. Simply, nuclear waste is a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Facing massive energy demand from the AI boom, nations are re-embracing nuclear power, with next-generation technologies like ...

One of the issues with nuclear power plants is that they produce long-lived radioactive waste. Storing spent nuclear fuel is a real problem. However, researchers at the Department of ...

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 ...