New concepts for advanced reactors are thriving, and boosted by new government funding, but there are serious detriments to ...
With growing interest in nuclear power, handling waste should be part of the deal. Today, nuclear energy enjoys a rare moment ...
Three trial uranium-plutonium MOX fuel assemblies containing americium-241 and neptunium-237 have completed three fuel ...
The final 85-gallon drums of toxic Hanford waste left an Idaho treatment facility in 2010, bound for permanent disposal in ...
On April 6, California lawmakers killed a bill that would have permitted small nuclear fission power plants — AKA microreactors — to proliferate across the state. On Monday, the state Assembly ...
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 ...
Hands wearing thick safety gloves hold metal tongs holding a container with a molten substance pouring out onto a tray on a counter. Before nuclear waste could be transformed into glass at the Hanford ...
A nuclear microreactor could be installed at Buckley Space Force Base in Aurora as part of a push across the Air Force and the Army to increase energy resilience.  Across the country, other customers ...
LG&E and KU are in talks with Maryland-based X-energy to bring prefabricated, 80 megawatt reactors to the Bluegrass State.