The ambitious project, initiated in 1991, will construct a nuclear waste facility capable of holding roughly 83,000 cubic ...

The Trump administration’s growing nuclear energy push now includes enlisting state help handling spent fuel, a politically ...

Experts want the responsibility for permanent disposal of nuclear waste in the hands of a nonprofit or similar corporate entity. Which is a nice way of saying the ...

The heat produced by the radioactive waste strikes you when you enter the storage site of Ontario Power Generation at the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station, near the shore of Lake Huron in Ontario.

The federal government is quietly asking governors a blunt question: which of them is prepared to host every stage of the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The U.S. government has launched a new operation extracting rare materials from Cold War era nuclear waste that is likely to ...

A Southern California Edison employee measures radiation at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station on March 10, 2020. (Photo: Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images) ...

Scientists say they’ve developed a way to salvage nuclear waste from fission reactors — and turn it into a potent fuel for fusion reactors instead. As Gizmodo reports, it’s an exciting prospect that ...

One of the highest-risk components of nuclear waste is iodine-129 (I-129), which stays radioactive for millions of years and accumulates in human thyroids when ingested. In the U.S., nuclear waste ...

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday restarted plans to temporarily store nuclear waste at sites in rural Texas and New Mexico, even as the nation is at an impasse over a permanent solution.

Nuclear power provides roughly 10% of the world's energy. Yet one of its biggest challenges is radioactive waste. While spent nuclear fuel is typically stored in underground facilities, researchers at ...