There are over 100 nuclear waste storage sites across the U.S., most located near nuclear plants such as those in Hanford, ...

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

Nuclear power produces enormous amounts of electricity with almost no carbon emissions, but it leaves behind something that can remain dangerous for thousands of years. The United States alone has ...

"The same goes for the legal or financial responsibility." Officials spark backlash with concerning plan for nuclear waste: ...

Japan has identified Minamitorishima, a remote and uninhabited coral atoll in the western Pacific, as a potential site for permanent nuclear waste disposal. The proposal marks the first time the ...

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

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 ...

Industry applauds the Trump administration’s moves to streamline nuclear power regulations as long overdue. But some ...

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Wednesday approved its first construction permit for a commercial nuclear reactor ...

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 ...

Nuclear energy is hot and everyone wants a piece of the action. President Donald Trump has announced his vision to quadruple America’s nuclear capacity by 2050, and 33 countries signed a declaration ...