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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Department of Energy will take more time to make a potentially controversial decision on where radioactive liquid waste from ...

Nuclear power plants are used primarily to generate electricity, and while they're often thought of as a cleaner energy source, there is a drawback. These power plants produce waste. This waste is ...

On March 9, South Korean shipbuilding giant HD Hyundai announced it had signed a ...

One of the issues with nuclear power plants is that they produce long-lived radioactive waste. Storing spent nuclear fuel is a real problem. However, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Thomas ...

HD Hyundai and ABS have launched a joint design for a 16,000-TEU nuclear-powered container ship using SMR electric propulsion ...

Nuclear energy is one of the most polarizing topics when it comes to ways of generating electricity. On one hand, there are those who believe nuclear is a much better alternative to fossil fuels and ...

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 ...

The Department of Energy will take more time to make a potentially controversial decision on where radioactive liquid waste from the Hanford nuclear site’s underground tanks will be turned into a ...