Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first capsules of high-level radioactive waste have been removed from a water-filled pool at the Hanford nuclear site to ...

These methods are how the nuclear industry safely manages the 10,000 metric tons of spent fuel waste that reactors produce as ...

The first capsules of high-level radioactive waste have been removed from a water-filled pool at the Hanford nuclear site to prepare them for safer dry storage in steel-lined, reinforced-concrete ...

As Washington's energy industry and lawmakers take another look at nuclear power as a way to reach a carbon-free energy ...

It is common for nuclear engineers to be concerned with the disposition of nuclear waste. After all, the United States alone currently has about 90,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel stored in ...

U.S. scientists are developing an innovation that could reduce nuclear waste storage time by 99.7%, transmuting long-lived radioactive materials into shorter-lived isotopes. The Jefferson Lab project, ...

Japan has identified Minamitorishima, a remote and uninhabited coral atoll in the western Pacific, as a potential site for permanent nuclear waste disposal. The proposal marks the first time the ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 21 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Energy will seek interest from U.S. states as soon as this week on storing nuclear waste in return for incentives to build nuclear reactors, a ...

This thunderclap — so obvious, yet so elusive — comes in a new bipartisan plan penned by an esteemed group of nuclear experts, including Allison Macfarlane, erstwhile chair of the U.S. Nuclear ...