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

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

Japan is looking into using a remote deserted Pacific island nearly 2,000 kilometers (1,250 miles) from Tokyo as a site for ...

"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.

Millard County’s ancient salt dome could be “ideal” location for storing radioactive material, per state reports.

The Department of Energy is looking at a way to speed up Hanford nuclear site environmental cleanup by having some waste with ...

The UK Treasury has branded a proposed underground nuclear waste repository in Cumbria as “unachievable,” drawing sharp ...

The TerraPower design, which it calls Natrium and has been developed jointly with GE Hitachi, has several novel features.

Japan is looking into using its remote and easternmost Pacific island Minamitorishima for long-term storage of nuclear waste ...

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.

Nuclear waste becomes clean energy as Jefferson Lab's particle accelerators reduce storage time by 99.7% while generating electricity for the grid.