Nearly 80 years of US nuclear waste is stuck in "temporary" storage sites. How big of a problem is that?

Researchers found that this system could suck out 95% of cesium contamination from soil in only 20 days. Once its parts reach ...

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 ...

The administration projects confidence those issues are being solved, arguing that perfecting the technology is a national imperative at a time when the U.S. is growing ever more desperate for ...

That waste is currently housed at some 80 locations across the country, according to a 2020 report from Congressional Research Service. While the United States does have storage facilities for some ...

The head of the top U.S. nuclear power group said that reprocessing of nuclear waste, a technique that has not been practiced in the United States for decades because of proliferation and cost ...

Matthew Wald stated that the United States lacks enough gas generators to meet predicted future power demands, as well as the ...

Agran, who has a talent for stirring the pot, proposes a simple (if expensive) alternative to San O’s current “beachfront ...

Since 2020, nuclear advocates have incessantly touted nuclear power’s benefits the way adolescents choose a first car: if it’s red, fast, and a convertible – that’s it! Cost? Don’t worry, “someone” ...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — 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 ...

The Hanford nuclear reservation in Southeastern Washington was the epicenter of plutonium enrichment during WW II and through the Cold War. For more than 20 years, an effort to safely dispose and ...