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 ...

Idaho's role in nuclear energy waste management is under scrutiny as the DOE considers the state for a Nuclear Lifecycle ...

The revival of nuclear power is accelerating efforts to develop permanent solutions for managing highly radioactive spent fuel.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock A new report from CNBC examined the problem of nuclear waste disposal, as the Trump administration plans to ...

Nearly 80 years of nuclear waste in the US is currently stranded, stuck in "temporary" storage sites without a permanent place to go. These sites are well secured, but have some drawbacks, especially ...

As we continue to agonize over the fate of highly radioactive nuclear waste — and local cities throw their weight behind an effort to move San Onofre’s to higher ground on Camp Pendleton — we’d like ...

Nuclear waste and a hydrogen economy may seem poles apart, but a new study by the University of Sharjah claims that spent fuel from nuclear power plants could be used to increase the efficiency of ...

A new federal effort to develop nuclear “lifecycle” campuses has produced something Washington, D.C., has rarely seen: states competing for a role in managing America’s used nuclear fuel. For decades, ...

Nuclear power plants run on fuel rods filled with uranium that has a shelf life of roughly three to six years. With no central repository for nuclear waste in the U.S., the spent fuel is kept on-site ...

What kind of world did humanity live in 100,000 years ago?Agriculture had not yet begun.There were no cities or nations. And, ...

A Texas regulator has given a nuclear waste startup the green light to start digging. The Texas Railroad Commission has issued Deep Isolation Nuclear a drilling permit for its full-scale, ...