The reboot highlights a dire problem for the country's nuclear program. Japan is running out of space to store spent nuclear ...

State officials aren't convinced DOE's plan would result in more Hanford site waste treated for disposal.

Finland is preparing to clear one of the final regulatory hurdles for what is ...

Residents say rare cancers around Coldwater Creek aren’t a coincidence.

As atomic power enjoys a second act in the U.S., there is a renewed push to scale technology that can extract energy from radioactive waste—and even reap power from Cold War-era bombs.

The question of how to dispose of nuclear waste is more important than ever, because the world is going through something of a nuclear renaissance. After years of fear about nuclear power plant safety ...

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s pledge to build seven nuclear energy plants, if elected, has triggered heated political debate – mostly about the costs and timetable of the plan. But the concept of ...

How will we know if a steel canister filled with highly radioactive nuclear waste is starting to crack? A scratch on one of the canisters at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, as detected from ...

Unlike burning fossil fuels, nuclear power plants release very few greenhouse gases. They’re safer than they’ve ever been, and currently generate around a fifth of the U.S.’s electricity. However, ...

Radioactive waste and contamination, like that created during the Manhattan Project’s launch of the world’s first nuclear weapons program in 1942, is scattered across dozens of production and research ...

The United States carved a tunnel system into Yucca Mountain in the Nevada desert, spent nearly $15 billion on the effort, ...