The reboot highlights a dire problem for the country's nuclear program. Japan is running out of space to store spent nuclear ...

How will we know if a steel canister filled with highly radioactive nuclear waste is starting to crack? A scratch on one of the canisters at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, as detected from ...

Oak Ridge teams are processing decades-old radioactive waste months ahead of schedule to reduce environmental risk.

The great problem with nuclear energy, hidden from the public as often as possible by the federal government and special interests, is the quantities of radioactive waste nuclear reactors produce.

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 ...

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 ...

RISING TIDE OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE. RADIOACTIVE GAS WILL BE VENTED FROM STORAGE CONTAINERS AT LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LAB SATURDAY, AND SOME IN THE AREA ARE NOT HAPPY ABOUT IT. JASON MCNABB IS LIVE IN LOS ...

Finland is preparing to clear one of the final regulatory hurdles for what is ...

The only permanent nuclear waste storage site in the country, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, has federal approval to add two new underground storage areas. The Waste Isolation Pilot ...

New Croatian law paving the way for a radioactive waste disposal centre near the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina draws outrcy from Bosnian officials and environmentalists. A file photo dated 12 ...

Lawmakers will consider draft legislation this week that would allow manufacturers of “advanced nuclear reactors” to store high-level radioactive waste at their Wyoming facilities. It would be the ...