The heaviest movies to win Best Picture at the Oscars include classics like Platoon and The Godfather Part II, and more recent films like Oppenheimer.

Holtec’s attempt to restart the shuttered Palisades nuclear plant faces delays, safety questions and missing documentation.

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 ...

Researchers at the DOE’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility are advancing two high-stakes projects aimed at optimizing Accelerator-Driven Systems (ADS). The initiative focuses on a ...

This story was reported as part of The New York Times Local Investigations Fellowship and is republished here with permission. After years of missed deadlines, New Mexico is demanding that the Energy ...

This article was reported and edited as part of the Local Investigations Fellowship, a New York Times program where local reporters produce investigative work about their communities. After years of ...

“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 ...

Alicia Inez Guzmán is reporting on nuclear weapons production in New Mexico as part of The New York Times’s Local Investigations Fellowship. After years of missed deadlines, New Mexico is demanding ...

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 ...

CASPER, Wyo. — A proposal that would have required a statewide vote before high-level radioactive waste or spent nuclear fuel could be stored in Wyoming failed to advance in the Wyoming House during ...

State environmental regulators will also fine the Energy Department up to $16 million for exceeding safe groundwater standards near the nuclear lab. By Alicia Inez Guzmán Alicia Inez Guzmán reports on ...