"That's not a reason not to do nuclear." New report examines long-standing problem with the US nuclear power plans: 'It's not a gigantic thing' first appeared on The Cool Down.

The Trump administration pushes nuclear power center stage. Vermont’s congressional delegation works to help communities storing the radioactive fuel left behind.

The Savannah River Site has a total of 51 waste tanks. Eight of those tanks have been operationally closed. (From Savannah River Site fact sheet, May 2022, U.S. Department of Energy) Around the U.S., ...

When you compare it to coal, nuclear power has a reputation for being squeaky clean, but there's more to the story than you ...

A private company that designs and manufactures parts for nuclear reactors has abandoned a project in New Mexico that sought to store nuclear waste from commercial power plants for an unspecified ...

Norwegian Nuclear Decommissioning has invited the municipalities to express an interest in taking part in the process of ...

The Board of Supervisors agreed to support research and development aimed at recycling hundreds of tons of spent nuclear fuel ...

In late November, a California think tank facilitated discussions about how the federal government might work with communities to build a waste storage facility — this time, with the consent of those ...

The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant shares the same operator as the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant. Read more at ...

The governor of Niigata has formally given local consent to put two reactors at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in the north-central prefecture back online, clearing a last hurdle toward re ...

A merger between Truth Social’s parent company and the fusion venture TAE Technologies is the latest big-money bet on an ...