There are over 100 nuclear waste storage sites across the U.S., most located near nuclear plants such as those in Hanford, ...
DOE Flips Nuclear Waste Debate Upside Down Because 100,000-Year Risk Falls to 300 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Some 3.55 million pounds of nuclear waste is beached at San Onofre. The spent fuel held in more than 120 stainless steel canisters at the now-shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, lodged ...
Virginia-based Jefferson Lab is leading a project to transform nuclear waste into usable electricity while also drastically reducing its radioactive life.
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 ...
Oklo CEO and Co-founder Jacob DeWitte at the announcement of Oklo’s planned advanced nuclear fuel center in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, with Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, the Commissioner of the Department ...
The Department of Energy on Wednesday signed the paperwork needed to allow radioactive waste to be pumped into the Hanford nuclear site’s vitrification plant 23 years after construction began, said ...
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 ...
The island is surrounded by a coral atoll and is only 0.6 miles wide. Nuclear power is on the rise around the world, but with it comes an extremely pressing question: where will all of the radioactive ...