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

The U.S. Department of Energy is betting $40 million that scientists can shrink the danger window of spent nuclear fuel from ...

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

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

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

Virginia-based Jefferson Lab is leading a project to transform nuclear waste into usable electricity while also drastically reducing its radioactive life.

The only permanent nuclear waste storage site in the country, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, has federal approval to add two new underground storage areas. The Waste Isolation Pilot ...

High-level spent nuclear fuel would be prohibited from being stored in New Mexico if lawmakers pass a pair of bills introduced during this year’s legislative session. The bicameral effort comes as ...

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 ...

State lawmakers will consider draft legislation this week that would allow manufacturers of “advanced nuclear reactors” to store high-level radioactive waste at their Wyoming facilities. It would be ...

Potential impacts on ground-water, tourism, mental health, as well as the prospect of truck crashes involving radioactive materials, are among a myriad of concerns being formally raised in response to ...

CASPER — At his town hall meeting Thursday night, with well more than 100 in attendance, Rep. Bill Allemand, R-Midwest, announced the Wyoming Freedom Caucus stance on Radiant Nuclear’s proposed ...