The United States has about 94,000 tonnes of nuclear waste in storage, though that's a bit like calling all that gold in Fort ...

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

The great problem with nuclear energy, hidden from the public as often as possible by the federal government and special interests, is the quantities of radioactive waste nuclear reactors produce.

A private company that designs and manufactures parts for nuclear reactors has abandoned a project in New Mexico that sought to store nuclear waste from commercial power plants for an unspecified ...

Fifteen years after the nation’s worst nuclear accident, the upper floors of the No. 1 reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant remain littered with wreckage from a hydrogen explosion.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aug. 14—The only permanent nuclear waste storage site in the country, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, has federal ...

The White House is pushing Congress to break a decades-long impasse around the handling of nuclear waste and entice states to get on board, according to a document obtained by POLITICO. The Trump ...

A research team at The Ohio State University has demonstrated a small battery that generates electricity from the gamma ...

A sleepy island north of Kyushu has been awakened by a controversial proposal to accept a rich government bounty for agreeing ...

Last year, national nuclear supplier BWX Technologies purchased the factory in Jonesborough, Tennessee and announced plans ...

When I first heard about Idaho qualifying for a possible nuclear innovation campus deal, I had a shiver of apprehension. Not because we couldn’t do it better than anyone else.

The only permanent nuclear waste storage site in the country, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, has federal approval to add two new underground storage areas. The Waste Isolation Pilot ...