Nuclear power provides nearly 10 percent of the world's electricity and roughly a quarter of global low-carbon electricity. Yet if the world is to achieve the goals of the United Nations' Sustainable ...

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 ...

The Department of Energy is looking at a way to speed up Hanford nuclear site environmental cleanup by having some waste with low radioactive contamination from the vitrification plant turned into ...

President Vladimir Putin said the development of Russia's nuclear triad was an "absolute priority" Monday as he outlined the country's stance on its weapons program, according to reports. Marking ...

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 ...

Energy Secretary Chris Wright announced plans during a visit to Paris last week to reinvigorate America’s nuclear fuel supply, including a partnership with the French company Orano to help build a ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The Pentagon airlifted a 5-megawatt nuclear microreactor from Riverside County’s March Air Reserve Base to Utah ...

US intelligence agencies believe China is developing a “new generation” of nuclear weapons — with Beijing having reportedly conducted at least one undisclosed explosive test already. China’s plan to ...

HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah (AP) — The Pentagon and the Energy Department for the first time airlifted a small nuclear reactor from California to Utah, demonstrating what they say is U.S. potential to ...