Permit me, if you will, a bit of personal history on how I came to be suspicious of Tennessee’s current approaches to energy. When I was a senior at Penn State University, a representative of student ...

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

VIENNA, March 3 (Xinhua) -- The Fukushima nuclear accident, while triggered by a natural disaster, was in essence a man-made disaster that exposed serious shortcomings in Japan's nuclear regulatory ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock India's plan to convert aging power plants into nuclear facilities has triggered opposition in Raichur, ...

Nuclear power plants are used primarily to generate electricity, and while they're often thought of as a cleaner energy source, there is a drawback. These power plants produce waste. This waste is ...

Hanford moves 1st radioactive capsules from underwater storage. The capsules could break and release radiation in a severe earthquake. Dry storage should be safer and reduces maintenance and ...

Radioactive contamination traced to Cold War-era nuclear waste has been found in residential yards near Coldwater Creek in St ...

Nuclear power sits at the center of today’s climate debate because it can generate large amounts of electricity without the smokestacks and tailpipes that drive global warming. Yet calling it 100% ...

The Hanford Tank Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant was built to turn that nuclear waste into glass; it started operating in October 2025. The history of the Hanford Site and the way the stored ...

If you have an after-hours emergency involving radiation, dial 911. Notify Radiation Safety of any incident involving radiological materials. To have radioactive waste removed, use the following form ...