Wyoming state lawmakers introduced a measure to ban nuclear waste storage unless it was specifically approved by a vote of ...
Whether it’s used batteries, solar panels, or spent nuclear fuel, getting use out of something destined for disposal sounds like a win all around. In nuclear energy, figuring out what to do with waste ...
Visible cracks on the concrete cap of the Runit Dome, a Cold War era nuclear waste repository on Enewetak Atoll in the ...
The Trump Administration has begun pushing for the expansion of U.S. nuclear power, driven in part by the ...
These methods are how the nuclear industry safely manages the 10,000 metric tons of spent fuel waste that reactors produce as they churn out 10% of the world’s electricity every ...
The U.S. Department of Energy is betting $40 million that scientists can shrink the danger window of spent nuclear fuel from ...
In December, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted to explore sending the nuclear waste from the San Onofre Nuclear ...
The Department of Energy has long been burying plutonium waste beneath the surface of New Mexico's desert. The DOE stashes it inside carved-out salt beds, which act as a sealant. Plutonium, which has ...
The national waste repository, an essential first step, is foundering amid popular opposition and the inconclusive decommissioning of our old power plants, entrusted to Sogin. The costs have ballooned ...
An International Atomic Energy Agency team of experts has praised progress made by Poland in safely managing its radioactive ...
WASHINGTON - Congress was warned Tuesday that the failure to build the planned Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada could delay licensing of the country's first new nuclear power plants ...