Used nuclear fuel is one of the most persistent challenges facing nuclear energy. Long after a reactor stops using it, the material remains intensely radioactive, requiring cumbersome and expensive ...

U.S. scientists are developing an innovation that could reduce nuclear waste storage time by 99.7%, transmuting long-lived radioactive materials into shorter-lived isotopes. The Jefferson Lab project, ...

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 Energy’s Thomas ...

America has 100,000 tons of nuclear waste and no permanent home. Now the government is asking states to step up, and bury it deep underground for good. Nearly seven decades after the first commercial ...

A subterranean storage facility is in the works to accommodate nuclear waste from the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station by Lake Huron. Plans are currently under federal review. The problem is that the ...

After years of missed deadlines, New Mexico is demanding that the Energy Department expedite the cleanup of so-called legacy nuclear and hazardous waste at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the ...

A Freedom Caucus-backed measure to ban spent nuclear fuel waste storage in Wyoming, unless affirmed by a vote of the people, failed to receive the two-thirds vote required to advance in the ...

“Buying uranium is suspiciously easy. It shows up in a UPS truck,” says Staff Sheehan, CEO and founder of Project Omega. “You can Google it.” He’s not speaking hypothetically. He’s explaining how his ...

The issues you care about are up for debate at the legislative session. Keep tabs on Wyoming politics and policy with our free morning newsletter. Sign up ️ A Freedom Caucus-backed measure to ban ...

The Office of Nuclear Energy has selected five companies in the US to research and develop technologies to recycle spent nuclear reactor fuel and has awarded them a $19 million purse. The award is ...

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