With growing interest in nuclear power, handling waste should be part of the deal. Today, nuclear energy enjoys a rare moment ...

As Japan takes the final steps toward restarting the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant, the world’s largest nuclear facility, familiar debates are resurfacing: reactor safety, seismic risk, and ...

A major cleanup breakthrough at one of the United Kingdom's most challenging nuclear sites is offering fresh optimism for the effort to tackle legacy radioactive waste. At Sellafield in Cumbria, ...

Finland is nearing the activation of a groundbreaking underground repository for highly radioactive nuclear waste, designed ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the two spent fuel pools at the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant, where waste is stored before being transferred to casks ...

SANTA FE, N.M. — A private energy company is abandoning a proposal to store nuclear waste at a site in southeastern New Mexico. Holtec International described an “untenable path forward for used fuel ...

Scientists are testing giant accelerators to "burn" nuclear waste, shrinking its hazard time from 100,000 to 300 years while ...

The development and use of nuclear technology, which began in the early 1940s, has produced a substantial inventory of radioactive waste— material with no current or currently known future use. The ...

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 ...

One of the two spent fuel pools at the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant, where waste is stored before being transferred to casks kept on site. The federal government has yet to develop a permanent ...